Krag Collectors Association Forum

This 1890's photo is very reminiscent of Springfield Armory photographs of stock-making department workers.

The Kongsberg Factory website put a caption on this 'busy' photo, which I have posted on the KCA, before:

"Weaponry course for officers in the infantry and medical services around 1897, in connection with the introduction of the Krag-Jorgensen gun.
The photograph was taken in a civil hall in an unknown location.
The Krag-Jorgensen gun was used as the main weapon for the Norwegian Armed Forces from 1894 until 1940".

Wow! The size of the stock blank to the far left! Lol

An ordinary young man could have had a far worse job. How many stocks, 1894 to the end of production. I don't remember when that was.