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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags
- Topic: Not a real carbine, but I like it
- Replies: 1
- Views: 285
Re: Not a real carbine, but I like it
Jrmartin - That is a very nice utility Krag.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Home at Last from Florida
- Replies: 3
- Views: 219
Home at Last from Florida
but ... brief visit in North Carolina was my kind of people!
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: Lucky Finds!! at military collector show today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 365
Re: Lucky Finds!! at military collector show today
Nice accessories, Hammer.
Whig, there's a Zouave hiding in every woodpile!
Whig, there's a Zouave hiding in every woodpile!
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 573
Re: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
.... and maybe my hunch was completely wrong.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 573
Re: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
'Hammer' - You can purchase a spare 'Sgt. Peep' plate and pivot-screw, from S&S Firearms (Glendale, N.Y.) or 'Grampa's Gun Parts', for a very reasonable cost. You can then enlarge the sight-hole, on one of your 'plates', for easier sighting. Most KCA Members just use the 'V' notch. The swing-up ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: I think it’s a 1900 JSA Dated Stamp
- Replies: 6
- Views: 275
Re: 1900 or 1903 JSA Dated Cartouche?
Too fuzzy to tell, the wood could be worn, sanded, or scraped?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Springtime is heading North
- Replies: 1
- Views: 226
Springtime is heading North
I enjoyed Fort Pulaski (at Savannah, Ga.) the other day.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: Krag DCM sales document
- Replies: 3
- Views: 272
Re: Krag DCM sales document
Whig is correct. The DCM Krag sales documents appear to authorize a sale, but, do not contain the actual serial number of the rifle or carbine involved in the transaction. I have seen the document photo that Cat Man posted before; I recall the purchaser's name. I have different paperwork for an NRA ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 400
Re: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
The Boeing P-12 is from the U.S. Army Air Corps, 55th Pursuit Squadron, early 1920s. Some U.S. Spads also wore the swastika emblem, during during WW1. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry division, with many Native Americans, wore a swastika patch from 1924 to 1939. The patch was changed to a 'Thunderbird' c...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 400
Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
A perfectly good U.S. military unit-logo would be permanently ruined, just a few years later.