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Nice accessories, Hammer.

Whig, there's a Zouave hiding in every woodpile!

.... and maybe my hunch was completely wrong.

'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 ...

Too fuzzy to tell, the wood could be worn, sanded, or scraped?

I enjoyed Fort Pulaski (at Savannah, Ga.) the other day.

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...