Krag Collectors Association Forum

'03collector' - Nice acquisitions at your recent gun show.

However, unless I'm sadly mistaken, U.S. Krag rifle serial number 99543 has to be a model 1896 rifle, (not a model 1898).

Is your nice stock repaired in the bolt-handle area? It appears to lack the normal 'scalloped' relief cut?

'MooseNugget' - Great story and time capsule!

The original steamship was pretty handsome.

'Antenna TV' is crappy in Florida, basic cable is no better, and our 'Firestick' is very inconsistent. I've taken to watching the "Sharpe's Rifles" BBC series from the 1990s on my laptop. The episodes are on YouTube, with Spanish captions, when English is spoken, and with English captions,...

.... and avoid people wearing togas!

(Well, any day on the toga thing).

March is just too full of weird shit!

Dave "D.B." Stewart, of Grampa's Gun Parts, is selling some old ordnance department boxes on eBay. He states that his grandfather, Joe DeChristopher, brought some of these out of Bannerman's Island Arsenal and W. Stokes Kirk - Philadelphia store, full of surplus parts. Empty wood boxes, no...

The circumference of a Pie is 3.14159 times its diameter. Every Baker knows that!

It's irrational, but constant, to infinity.

Talk about Pi in the Sky!

... for tomorrow? Thank the ancient Greeks!

Why Michigan women get prematurely gray ... that Paul Steinmayer, must have been a "wild child", like his Dad is!

During the "Insurrection" in the Philippines, it was found that some Filipino combatants 'reloaded' the spent primers, in .43 Spanish brass. They removed the primer cup and filled it with shaved match-head material. I don't know if they bothered removing the 'dent' before filling and repla...

Boer General Tobias Smuts, with what is now one of the most sought after (Steyr made) model 1894 Norwegian Krag rifles.