Krag Collectors Association Forum

I have a Krag rifle #387640. According to my Joe Poyer reference book it falls into the Board of Ordnance group. That's the good news. The bad news is that it has been sporterized, beautifully done, but sporterized. Does it still retain any Board of Ordnance value or is it now just what it is, a masterfully sporterized Krag. If Stradivarius did guns instead of violins, it would probably look like this one.

There were only 100 of those, distinguished by a 26" barrel, special rear sight, and very special stock. Your number IS fairly close, but no cigar. In any event, sporterizing a BoOF rifle would TOTALLY destroy the collector value, unless you scored a DIRECT serial number hit in the SRS database - if so, the receiver WOULD have some value to some people, but then the convoluted ethics involving "restoration" would come into play.