Danish 1915 Krag bayonet

This is one you don't see very often. Usually pretty expensive when you do. Been watching them sell for well over what I wanted to pay on eBay for about two years now. Made an offer of $100 for this one today and brought it home so I was pretty pleased. The guy insisted it was WWI German because he had looked up the name on the handle. This is a guy that sells quite a bit of military items at an antique mall, not the same one the practice bomb came from. I had to clean it up some as either he or someone before him had knocked off some of the light rust with what appears to be a wire wheel. I just polished out the wheel marks.

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Very nice! Its interesting how the Danish had a very modern knife bayonet, and went to the long bayonet after observing other nations at war in WWI.

There is a 1889 Danish Krag I have been eyeing up for awhile now, tough to decide if I want to buy it or not. Actually I suppose the question isn't if I want to buy it, rather should I buy it :lol:

I passed on one at Cabelas a couple of years ago and sort of regret it. they are nice looking rifles. I think it was $800 at the time and it was within price guidelines. I was saving for my luger though and didn't want to use the points. Had I bought it, I still would have my luger but wouldn't have the Type 94 or the Browning so I don't regret it too much. Trade off of a rifle never really used in conflict vs two pistols that were.

Nice...1915 Danish Krag...not often seen. DENMARK

The Danish Krags were used in WWII, and likely saw more service usage than any service pistol (just because service pistols really don't see much use at all).

Recently I have been thinking of changing up my type of collecting towards a action type collection, i.e. distinctive and unique actions, as opposed to having a bunch of variants which are more or less the same gun just reworked slightly differently. A Danish Krag would fit that perfectly.

How do you figure that? Denmark basically surrendered without firing a shot, well 2 to 4 hours of limited shooting. Total casualties are under dispute but in all cases very small. German losses were 2-3 killed and 25-30 wounded, and that the Danish military suffered a confirmed 16 dead and 20 wounded. Casualties among the civil resistance is not certain, but are given as 10 dead and 3 wounded. After the surrender the rifles went to secondary German units which typically means guards of some sort.

It's still a very interesting rifle and I'd like to have one someday, now I need one to put this bayonet on.

Wow, I never realized it was such a short resistance, I knew it was short I didn't realize that short. I stand corrected.

It's OK, I was under the impression they surrendered without a fight so you were more accurate than I was.