Krag Collectors Association Forum

But it's easy to find a trapdoor. I've been messing with this stuff since the late 50s, all over the country, and I've never even seen a Remington-Lee, for sale. I might have seen one for show, but not sure. To me, they are museum pieces.

If you read the old books, 311284 was designed for the Krag, back about 1900 (+/-).

The original photo is much clearer than this. It had to be reduced too much to post it here. Martha knew a lot about cartridges. Even when she was 90, she could recognize any that were used in the Arctic during her time. In the Arctic, money had no value because there was nothing to buy. But cartrid...

Yes, good story, BUT, bolsjeviks and French foreign legion in Norway????????????? Bolsheviks were only successful in Russia, but there were militant groups elsewhere. That's what ultimately led to Finland's independence. The cause was popular among Norwegian coal miners, to the point of an actual r...

butlersrangers wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:25 pm Waterman, how do you know it is a "Benicia Carbine"?

Camel tracks on the stock?

Source. Got it from a much older than me guy who remembered his father getting it "from the army" when he was just a kid. Got it in the late 1980s.

Back in 1974, I met an tiny old woman who told me a tale about Krags and Polar Bears. In 1916, she had just graduated from Columbia University, in Manhattan, with a degree in Applied Arts. She was a professional photographer. On her 20th birthday (1916), she married Ken, a geologist employed by a No...

My understanding of the purpose behind the Benecia carbines was to keep a skilled workforce employed. Post-WW1 War Dept budgets had been cut, but the professionals, especially the Navy, expected a war with Japan, probably in the Philippines. Benecia was the only west coast arsenal, and was on a dire...

When I look at the "double JSA" photo, I think I see 2 faint outlines of part of an inspector's stamp above them.

Truth! And certainly not funny. Even if you do not like Trump , or simply consider him to be the lesser of two weevils, we have GOT to get rid of the current shitshow in DC (AND those in the Liberal/Woke large cities) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The good old days of Harry Truman, and Democrats who lo...

Back in the days of $2 Krags, the Krag cartridge was considered by some to be "too powerful" for deer hunting. The issue bullet was apt to go completely through the deer and keep on going. When I started messing with Krags in the 1950s, I saw several rebarreled to .30/30. I never saw one r...