Anyone know of a source for an elusive, to me, 1896 stock set?
1896 stock
Re: 1896 stock
You'll still need a front band. One of the guys has a post about splicing in a front piece of stock in the last couple of months. Stocks in the wild only come from @#^$&%^* guys parting out good guns the moola. The eternal dilemma for a limited commodity. Those who want to retain whole rifles or those will do any thing for a fast buck.
Deacon in the Church of the Mighty Krag. Member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals). Liberty Works Radio
Re: 1896 stock
Yeah, i have been hoping for years to find one someone someone messed up the metal. I know its heresy to hope for a ruined krag but I really want to put this one back to as issued. She is stupid accurate
Re: 1896 stock
is it possible or easier to find a complete gun that has a sewer pipe barrel and just buy it and swap the sewer pipe into the sporter and visa versa?
Re: 1896 stock
there are a couple of stocks on ebay right now. not sure about correctness though?
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Hunza.
Got any links?
Rick
It would be better to just go find an un-messed up Krag and enjoy both guns. Yeah. The six hundred dollar rifle of twenty-five years is now the one thousand to fifteen hundred dollar rifle of today. That or find a stock maker. I hear there is one and he ani't cheap. Frankly, I would personally go that route but I never did have any sense. It cost me fifteen hundred to put a new barrel on a rifle I paid close to five thousand. The chamber was severely eroded and was almost impossible to extract the only round I ever fired in it. I feared I would bend the lever doing it (my winchester musket).
Got any links?
Rick
It would be better to just go find an un-messed up Krag and enjoy both guns. Yeah. The six hundred dollar rifle of twenty-five years is now the one thousand to fifteen hundred dollar rifle of today. That or find a stock maker. I hear there is one and he ani't cheap. Frankly, I would personally go that route but I never did have any sense. It cost me fifteen hundred to put a new barrel on a rifle I paid close to five thousand. The chamber was severely eroded and was almost impossible to extract the only round I ever fired in it. I feared I would bend the lever doing it (my winchester musket).
Deacon in the Church of the Mighty Krag. Member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals). Liberty Works Radio
Re: 1896 stock
Yeah, im not in a severe rush to do it so I wont over pay. I just want an example of each model year eventually and this would be my 1896 obviously
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i have no connection nor any idea or opinion of authenticity etc of the above. just found them and hope to help
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Re: 1896 stock
I have never purchased anything from "Ibach". He has been 'parting out' complete original Krag rifles, longer than I have been on this Forum.
It makes me angry, when original guns are destroyed!
'Prestigious Woods' seems to be a nice source for new gun stocks.
It makes me angry, when original guns are destroyed!
'Prestigious Woods' seems to be a nice source for new gun stocks.