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Dan Lowery has the correct butt plate screw. So it and a correct stacking swivel & screw have been ordered. While waiting for those to come in, I'll be cleaning/polishing the chamber. I like to test feed / eject empty cartridges before even thinking about live ammunition (which I'm still debatin...

<blockquote>In case "Inquiring Minds Want To Know ... ": <br /><br />'Olderthansome' hit the nail on the head.<br /><br />I woke up this morning considering the same idea of using a 'Trapdoor' butt-plate screw, as a replacement large screw, on an early Krag stock with a 'flat' butt-plate.<...

<blockquote><br /><br />Since this first model was immediately following the Trapdoors which used a convex screw, you might try to find a later trapdoor from which you can "borrow" a screw to test the fit. I imagine, that SA would try to use up old inventory wherever they could. When I thi...

<blockquote>Here is an online copy of the 1898 print. Unable to find the 1894. You can download it as a PDF. It may be helpful until you find an 1894 copy.<br /><br />https://books.google.com/books?id=lprH9sWcJTAC&pg=PA6&dq=rules+for+the+management+of+the+u.+s.+magazine+rifle+1894&hl=en&...

<blockquote>Boomer - You should search around for a reprint of the 1894 Ordnance Department "Rules For The Management of the U.S. Magazine Rifle".<br /><br />These reprints don't cost much and contain lots of neat period information.<br /><br />The 1898 and 1917 Krag reprints are more comm...

<blockquote><br /><br />Joe Farmer is one of the good guys as far as I am concerned. You should not have fear. He haunts Culver's ( jouster2.com ) Krag forum.<br /><br /><br />Captain Culpeper of the KCA Irregulars<br /></blockquote><br />Thanks for the recommendation. That is good enough for me.<br...

<blockquote>Per Franklin Mallory, "Krag Rifle Story", 2nd edition, page 210, Appendix 9, the large screw, for the original type of model 1892 butt-plate, had a convex head.<br /><br />It appears your current screw is of a later type and that a convex head screw would be a nice fit. </block...

<r><blockquote>How about an inside view of the butt-plate?</blockquote><br />The butt plate is about .08" thick (it tapers at the edges), which matches the dimension Joe Poyer gives in his book. I haven't been able to find when they changed the screw type. Did they change the screw being used w...

<r>And since you've seen pretty much everything else on this rifle, here's the naked butt with no lightening holes. There is a marking from a previous owner that appears to have been made with a sharpie or something similar.<br /><IMG src="https://kragcollectorsassociation.org/kca/phpBB3/images/yabb...

<r>I've read that Springfield went to a flat head butt plate screw from a rounded head screw specifically to have the screw head flush with the plate - for the same reason they went to an angled toe. One of the things I noticed when I first got this rifle was that the large butt plate screw was not ...