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It seems Norwegian Krags were produced over a much longer period than the short production years of the American models.
There were a few hundred Norwegian Krags produced for special purpose even after WWII.

This one is the latest I have seen. Receiver dated 1947. We call it the model M30 by its pattern.
Civilian shooters could have existing rifles converted to the M30 target rifle pattern but those have dates from any earlier era.

The chart in Karl Hanevik's book shows Model 30 rifles were built in the late 1930's and again a few hundred in 1950 and 1951.
I guess 1951 would be the "Last Krag". There is an entry for 650 "Diverse Gevaerer" produced the 1947.

Anyone care to guess what Diverse means in Norwegian?

Cat Man Jeff

This is very interesting "Cat Man Jeff".

I had not realized any Krag rifles were actually built, during my lifetime.

Now, I have to look for a Birth-Year Krag!

me too!!!!!!!!!

Cat Man wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:53 pm It seems Norwegian Krags were produced over a much longer period than the short production years of the American models.
There were a few hundred Norwegian Krags produced for special purpose even after WWII.

This one is the latest I have seen. Receiver dated 1947. We call it the model M30 by its pattern.
Civilian shooters could have existing rifles converted to the M30 target rifle pattern but those have dates from any earlier era.

The chart in Karl Hanevik's book shows Model 30 rifles were built in the late 1930's and again a few hundred in 1950 and 1951.
I guess 1951 would be the "Last Krag". There is an entry for 650 "Diverse Gevaerer" produced the 1947.

Anyone care to guess what Diverse means in Norwegian?

Cat Man Jeff

The "diverse" thing may be a mistranslation or something. This is one of the "replacement rifles", which were rifles built Post-war from both new and existing Krag-Jørgensen parts for shooting clubs. They're called replacement rifles because they were meant to replace the rifles lost during the Nazi bombings of shooting clubs in Norway, and the confiscation of rifles. All these replacement rifles had serial numbers with an "L" prefix, and, from my understanding, are the only models with this letter prefix, which makes them easier to identify. They were mostly built to match whatever pattern of rifle the parts were made for. If the receiver was originally for an M1894, they put an M1894 barrel on it. If it was for an M25 or M30, they would rebuild a rifle to that specification.

This 1947 marking is VERY interesting to me. I hadn't ever seen a replacement rifle with a new date of production on the chamber. Usually they would just keep the original date on existing receivers if I recall correctly. They at least did that for most of the post-war m30s and definitely left the original markings for post war Stomperuds. Perhaps the receiver was newly made and was produced as a M/30? Either way, its a super cool rifle.