Krag Collectors Association Forum

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 ...

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...

A perfectly good U.S. military unit-logo would be permanently ruined, just a few years later.

Possible germ of the idea of issuing carbine length Krags to people of small stature. Full-length rifles proved very awkward for Filipinos serving in the U.S. Scouts and the Philippine Constabulary. 'Trapdoor' carbines were a good stopgap. Initially, The Philippine Scouts, at the 1904 - St. Louis Wo...

Frank Mallory and William Brophy both wrote a chapter on the Philippine Constabulary/School Rifles in their Krag books. The chapters throw some light, but, also create some confusion, at least in my mind, on the subject. Brophy shows pictures of a Springfield Armory produced short rifle with a J.F.C...

FWIW - I don't own a 'School Rifle' and have seen more suspect ones, than real ones. To add to the confusion, "Philippine Constabulary carbines" and "School Rifles" are both technically, a "United States magazine carbine, model of 1899, adapted for knife bayonet and gun slin...

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Ned, it's funny to people who know & like Polish food and enjoy the beginning of April!

McDonald's has selected Cleveland and Detroit, as trial markets, for a new 'International Offering'.

Sorry Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee & Chicago, you lost out, .... introducing "The McPierogi" !

Very nice, but, I would distract 'break-ln' thieves by concealing the entrance, with a liquor cabinet in front of the door!