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It's a carbine.

Looking to find anything on a 1896 serial# 35548.

Thank you for looking! :)

IMHO - I think you guys are spot-on. Thanks for the reality check. Will send the barrel back tomorrow. I guess I can use the money to buy more bullets as butlersrangers suggested or maaaaybeeee... buy another Krag! Will be heading to the range in morning to sling some lead down range with the little...

<r>Received the replacement barrel, however, it turned out to be 21 inches instead of the 22 inches as advertised. :'( All my research indicates that original carbine barrels have to be 22 inches. Any exceptions to the rule??? The seller said I can send back the barrel for a full refund but I'd be w...

madsenshooter,<br /><br />Hi thank you for you input.<br /><br />I'm just guessing that if there was a sight slot it was probably milled/ground off so the current sight could be put in its place. The barrel diameter seems to be smaller, where the sight sits, and bigger behind it. It would be interes...

Excuse me. I meant to say "Family Krag".

Butlersrangers,<br /><br />Hey THANK YOU so much for the fast investigative work!!!<br />You guys are a tremendous wealth of information. The Stokes information sure does explain why I couldn't say for sure that the front sight was a 1903. The darn rifle kept sending me through a loop since it didn'...

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<r>Howdy Folks,<br /><br />New to the board and first time poster. I'm a novice military surplus arms collector and recently acquired a Krag. A buddy was pining away for a Chassepot bayonet of mine and decided to trade his Krag for the bayonet! Of course I said "lets shake on it" and gave ...