Krag Collectors Association Forum

Welcome to the forum. Be prepared to be overwhelmed with information about your Carbine. I fear you may end up being more confused than when you came in.<br /><br />The short answer is "no". All carbines do not have saddle bars and rings. But here is where the confusion will begin. Your Ca...

<blockquote> There are some things that, in my opinion, SA would not have done: 98 bolt in "96" receiver, rifle sight on a carbine, etc. Sorry, but that's my take.</blockquote><br /> When you find your copy of Mallory 2, check page 78, right column under topic of Major Variations: "Mo...

As an update, I looked for other serial numbers close to the one you listed for your Grandpa and I found that there were several numbers within 2 or 3 hundred (or possibly more) that had been issued to the 8th US Infantry in 1900 or 1901 and a quick search of the 8th US Infantry indicates that they ...

I can't decide which impresses me more - the fantastic story told here or your incredible ability to find so many things of interest that would otherwise be lost or forgotten. Well done, indeed!!!

The quick answer is 'Probably not'. But the rest of the story gets a little complicated. The U.S. military was never officially on the Korean Peninsula in force, but we were in the neighborhood. In the first few years of the 20th Century we were in China for the Boxer Rebellion and in the Philippine...

I wasn't talking so much about deaths. I was talking about the disappointment for kids who are confused, frightened and just plain unhappy? It's not fun to try to describe to a crying child why no one could see his costume that his mother had made or he couldn't go to a particular house that was too...

" Candy manufacturers pushed real hard to get the fall back date to include Halloween so they could sell more candy."<br /><br />Actually, us parents pushed pretty hard to get the date extended to avoid the new, earlier darkened conditions so the kids would be safer without both them and t...

If it was a Rough Rider carbine, would you change it? I don't think I would feel right about "changing history". We are, after all, just caretakers, not really owners. If the changes are done by the Arsenal with routine maintenance and 'IRAN' then that's one thing - part of the history, no...

All 1899 Krags are carbines so it's a sure thing that you have a real Krag carbine. The 1899 was the first carbine to be made without the saddle ring and the same stock would soon be used to update any earlier model carbines that were in line for repair or replacement of parts. The fact that it has ...

Just keep in mind that the original ad talks about "serve as decorations and relics". "Some tested and work 'fairly' well". (yikes!). "Fire damaged", "we've retempered some, and refinished..someand we won't guarantee them". Yikes, some more! <br /><br />If Ban...