Krag Collectors Association Forum

Some of the descendants of the Donner party are my next-door neighbors. Very nice people who live normal lives.

Are there any lists of firearms sold via the DCM? My reason for asking is a 1917 S&W revolver, from the estate of a man who was a non-combatant officer in WW1 (supervised coal mines in Wyoming), while still in the Army got the Spanish Flu in 1919. His wife simply took him home from the hospital,...

My thoughts are that it's not much more than an odd paperweight. I've only messed with one GPR, but the action was not "Krag-smooth".

Does the Krag GP action have the extractor parts? And the internal pin in the left bolt raceway? Without those, it's just a Krag action that might not be as smooth as others.

If there were taxes on the "dime a gallon" gas in 1926, they were minimal. Most of the taxes on today's petrol are used for road repair, something that was only beginning a century ago. If you subtract taxes from today's petrol prices, you have a reasonable example of two-part inflation, p...

The stuff about cupro-nickel bullets and difficult-to-remove fouling was known and written about more than 120 years ago. There's an obscure (and bloody marvelous) 3-volume set of books, "History of Modern U.S. Military Small Arms Ammunition", by Frank Hackley, William Woodin, and Eugene S...

Amoskeag is a pretty good & helpful organization. Several auctions ago, they had two Krags with Stevens-Pope barrels up for bid. The descriptor gave SNs for the Krags, which was irrelevant. I sent Amoskeag an e-mail explaining that the value was in the SN of the barrels. They disassembled both r...

Cracked bolts are nothing new. Cracked bolts and increased barrel fouling are what led to the abandonment of the 2200 fps load when the Krag was still in service. There must have been hundreds of them over the years.

Still have the bolt.

My "back of the truck seat" rifle was (still is) a Bannerman 1896 Krag, put together by them from parts. Barrel is from some .30 cal military firearm, but not a Krag. Maybe a 1917 Enfield, maybe even a machine gun of some sort. Not Krag dimensions. Not D&T for any military barrel sight...