Krag Collectors Association Forum

Culpepper, how much did you pay for a box back in 2005? That would be a good example of a "utilitarian commodity" holding a steady value while our "money" aka "exchange certificates" is continuously devalued.

Given today's prices, if that was new ammunition, all in small cardboard or plastic boxes inside a big cardboard box, it would go for something like $2,000 or $2,500. If those are 50 of the really old lift-top pasteboard boxes full of FMJ Krag loads, presumably all unopened. Plus a neat Winchester p...

The Boer purchasing agents in Europe had a lot of hard currency (gold coins) at a time when other currencies were less desirable. Steyr (and Mauser) sold the agents (who apparently didn't know much about rifles) almost anything in the odd corner of their warehouses. The purchase of 5,000 Guedes sing...

Mr. Cleveland was a bit before my time. IIRC, the 2nd time around, he got to preside over a pretty bad depression. Mr. Hosmer and I live in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of California, wherein the winner gets all the electoral votes and they are already assigned to Ole Joe. It's a done deal. A vo...

That certainly says a lot for our mainstream culture.

How do they get away with "no tax charged"? They may hide it in their prices, in which case it's just an advertising gimmick, but failing to pay the tax agency in the states of their customers residence is asking for trouble.

That tells us a lot about the actual value of our currency. Those of us who think the price is incredibly high are mentally obsolete, behind the times.

An ordinary young man could have had a far worse job. How many stocks, 1894 to the end of production. I don't remember when that was.

Dick Hosmer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:36 pm Wasn't the whole thing also posted here - and so should be available somehow - or was it by link reference only? Hope it isn't gone - was kinda neat . . .

I'm old, also, but I seem to recall that, once upon a time, MP's Krag destruction article was posted here.

If I read the news correctly some time back, the HNIC in China gave the Peoples Liberation Army a 2027 date to solve the Taiwan problem. Building military (missile) platforms on all those South China Sea reefs is a necessary step before invading Taiwan and that step is not done. That closes the Sout...