Reading from the Krag collection

[Cat Man]

When I'm not Krag shooting, I am reading about it. What's in your Krag library?

[Culpeper]

I cannot start to count the electronic books I have in the laptop or which one I have read because I am always chicken pecking any one of them on a given day.

I did find a copy of your Rifle Range Construction book at Archive.org

https://archive.org/details/riflerangeconst00ewingoog

[butlersrangers]

IMHO - 'Hard Copy' is a lot more enjoyable than looking at Krag stuff on the internet.

Like Krag rifles and carbines, Krag related books, ephemera, and photos, tend to multiply without realization!

Great Fun during a period of 'Quarantine'.

[Knute1]

I remember that book titled "The Krag Rifle Story" advertised in sporting magazines for years. Man I sure wish I had bought one back then, but I wasn't interested or even knew what the heck a Krag-Jorgensen rifle was. Just some obscure rifle that must not have had much history. I knew about the Trapdoor and the 1903 Springfield. But who cared about such a foreign named rifle that must have been used by some other country?

Unbeknownst to me it would take me on a search that would lead me to my own ancestry. First getting interested in the rifle because of being Norwegian (40%) and the unique magazine. Buying a sporter just so I could see how it worked. Then finding a great grandfather with proof that he had one as a soldier in the Philippine Insurrection and Boxer Rebellion. Also buying a full military Krag from an uncle I hadn't seen much in the last 40 years, who shared the same ancestry.

I have found many online books on the Krag that I wouldn't have had otherwise. But I also would much rather have a good to honest hardbound book and have just a few. Maybe I'll start looking a little harder.

[butlersrangers]

It is wonderful to have some form of access to rare books, reports, and manuals.

"Pint .. er, Print on Demand" of obscure and rare works is a nice option.

[carbon outlaw]

me too

[carbon outlaw]

and

[madsenshooter]

Interesting illustration of the cartridges in the magazine. Someone's heading for a case of rimlock!

[Old Soldier]

So where does one go to get print on demand books?

[butlersrangers]

Google 'search' a title and some companies offering this service will show up.

I think with some of the Hathitrust scanned books - copies can be ordered in print, online.