Help with rear sight

[olderthansome]

The stock looks very good - maybe refinished. With better photos, we may be able to be more helpful. In the meantime, I will be happy to say that if the stock is original and even is refinished carefully, it probably is worth the whole that you've invested so far. The rest of the parts (less the sight) are the icing on your cake. I think you've done well, grasshopper.

The serial number is out of the range most of us think of as "correct", but the subject is always not certain. In Mallory's book, 2nd Edition, he lists a few carbines beyond "the range" and, as I recall, one was even beyond 200,000. Regardless, if all the parts are married, the stock's value is the same whether with a proper number or not. It only needs to be "original" which brings us back to the subjective conversation.

[butlersrangers]

'King Karp":

Knurling on sight-knob is wrong.

Front-Sight hood/protector is correct.

[King carp]

Thanks to everyone for their help. Could someone with access to krag serial numbers check and see if 156484 shows up in the records.
Thanks, kc

[Whig]

It is not listed in any of the 4 editions of the Springfield Research Service.

[King carp]

Upon taking this krag apart I found that it has a new after market barrel installed. I wondered why the rifling was so good! I guess that takes any collector value out of it. Well, I wanted a shooter I guess I have one. I will make a chamber cast and hopefully it will be 30-40 krag. Here are some pics of the stock i was asked for. Was the hole under the oiler, cleaning rod hole made to lighten the stock or for extra storage?
Thanks again everyone, kc

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Swivel hole filled in.

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