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^^^^what he said!

I was going to say - there wasn’t a lot of shotgun there for you to pick up on that with in the pic!

I’ll throw some up when I have a bit of free time.

Indeed! It’s a retired guard shotgun from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola - complete with a trench gun heat shield poorly fitted (by the prison armorer I presume). I have the provenance on...

Not the best pic - it’s locked in the rack but thought I’d get this up for you. If you want something different I’ll get to it in a bit after a meeting. Cheers!
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Precisely my thoughts - fits the known history and overall condition. It hasn’t been stuck on a rack for all of its life that’s for sure.

It also has a less commonly seen stamped rear sight...

This one really has the “been there done that” look going for it. I did a little trading to make this one happen. I’m probably a wee bit too deep into it but it’s what I wanted - WWII era, not a No.4...

Beautiful rifle! Thanks for sharing the story - it’s an amazing heirloom.

After a few fixes and additions to get back to original condition, I finally got the rifle out to shoot this evening. It was indoor and only 25yds (I just wanted to check zero and ensure proper...

Copy all! Again many thanks - I don’t think I have discovered anything else to date!
Your time and attention are greatly appreciated.

Ahh gotcha. Well there isn’t a remnant there either. A couple of dark spots are there - but sanded or washed out beyond recognition (I’m assuming similar to what one might find on 1903 stocks of...

Nothing found on the top of the wrist - however while I was back there I found these on the back flat of the bolt handle- ...

I very much appreciate your time and energy in helping me become a much better and more informed Krag owner. I have several things in the mail as previously mentioned (to include a 3-piece cleaning...

The strap is 1-piece and measures to approx 68in in length of leather, not including the brass frog fingers that extend beyond (which are of the “narrow” variety as I understand it.

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Sling mystery solved - I found very faint stamping from Rock Island Arsenal and a W.T.G. Inspection stamp (WT...

Great info on the stock!

I had a bit of a mystery with the rear sight- but it’s solved.

The rear sight is a bubba-job stag horn rear on an otherwise 1901 pattern sight. See below:...

All good sir! It’s full length for sure. Seemingly well kept under previous ownership. No offense taken. I’m new to this platform and am soaking as much in as I can.

As far as I can tell the barrel is straight as can be!

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Sorry for wrong verbiage I was referring to the...

Hello all!
I’m new to this platform but not to Milsurps or other US rifles. This was a big hole in my US rifle collection (all post Civil War beginning with a trapdoor carbine). While not a...

Stolen by today’s standards!

The original owner picked this one up, sealed in-box, in 1986. It’s interesting that it basically sat in a rack/warehouse for essentially 8 years prior to being...

Cleaning kit was in the buttstock where it belongs and is complete as well!

Stripped to see overall condition of everything - appears never fired (not even test fired) as best I can tell.......

Trying to figure this one out - looks like perhaps a later derivation of the 306 factory code - serial is in the 23 range (guessing late 1970’s , likely 78 or 79 perhaps)?

At any rate - found this...

An interesting suggestion from another forum was to check the rear face of the magazine (where the tape presently resides) for any inward curvature (dish) and to tap (rather forcefully) it out to...

Correct.

I am just trying to fit the appropriate magazine to the rifle, where it will remain fixed per design.

Apologies to all if I was unclear in my initial problem statement.

So I found the source of the problem from a perspective of getting the magazine to lock in-place and remain as such.

The following was just a mock-up to identify where the problem is and to get...