Krag Collectors Association Forum

There are two auction sites. For the higher numbered items (2000+), you have to go to the timed auction. You have to go back to the auction home page and click on the timed auction symbol.

The Amoskeag Auction starting tomorrow has an 1899 (?) Krag carbine with what is a seriously low expected value. Check it out ASAP. Lot 1405. https://live.amoskeagauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/114/lot/78378/U-S-Model-1898-99-Krag-Bolt-Action-Carbine-by-Springfield-Armory?url=%2Fauctions%2Fca...

I agree that the present administration is not good for the country I was born in and where I've lived for the last 83 years. I view them as Negro-Socialists, intent upon turning our country into another third-world shithole and destroying the white culture that built our country. But I see our cond...

The Stevens-Pope barrel was made to work with the regular extractor for .30/40 Krag ammunition. The GPR had an entirely different extractor system, plus a "trip pin" installed in the rear part of the bolt raceway. Would a S-P barrel even function with a GPR action? My thoughts would be &qu...

No. Stevens-Pope barrels were never installed on GPR rifles. The S-P barrels were made starting about 1900-1902 (going by memory, there are many discussions on this forum). They were sold commercially and were purchased by National Guard units in Ohio, PA, NJ & Washington DC. Those units convert...

I've read a couple of reports on modern tests of Baker rifles. Not all that much of an improvement over a smoothbore with properly fitted round balls.

Oh My, am I slow. Apple pi day, 3.14

I have 5 pi apples in the fridge, guess I'll have to bake a pi.

If you look for FMJ 220-grain bullets, Woodleigh and others, called "solids" by the Brits and some of the guys headed for Africa, check them with a magnet. Steel jackets were in vogue for shooting big critters in Africa. Probably not good for our Krag barrels. I was in the bullet business ...

I certainly led a sheltered life in an Illinois farm town in the 1950s. I don't remember ever seeing anything like that.

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 repl...