New Krag

[Calfed]

I've been looking for a 30-40 Krag for sometime and finally scored one over the weekend. It was at an on-line estate auction so only one pic and a description:



Serial no. 252527, .30-40 Krag cal., 30" barrel, blue finish, walnut stocks, with unit marks "56-K" on receiver; additionally studio marked "MGM".

Condition:
Very good. Retaining approx. 85% thinning blue. Stock shows light sanding, with crack eminating from upper tang. Shows some professionally accomplished lateral repairs at wrist. Action is crisp, bore is fine.


Not sure what the "studio marking "MGM" means? Does that kind of a cartouch or proof mark ring a bell with any one? Also, is this an antique?

Will post better pics when it arrives.

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[Calfed]

Found a couple of better pics on the auction site:

[pdh]

Your Krag should have a mark for MGM movie studio.This means your rifle could have been in the movies and carried by John Wayne in "The Fighting Seabees"(probably not).

[jon_norstog]

pdh,

you beat me to that one! Yeah, the studios once owned vast numbers of krags, rolling blocks and trapdoors that they used as stand-ins for a lot of different weapons. So you see B movies about the Revolution or the Alamo and the extras are carrying these modern cartridge rifles. All they had to have was a long barrel.
It's kind of a sport, spotting Krags in the movies. I saw Raquel Welch cary one in "100 Rifles"

jn

[jon_norstog]

pdh,

you beat me to that one! Yeah, the studios once owned vast numbers of krags, rolling blocks and trapdoors that they used as stand-ins for a lot of different weapons. So you see B movies about the Revolution or the Alamo and the extras are carrying these modern cartridge rifles. All they had to have was a long barrel.
It's kind of a sport, spotting Krags in the movies. I saw Raquel Welch cary one in "100 Rifles"

jn

[pdh]

John were you watching for Krags or Raquel? She made the Krag look good.

[Calfed]

Finally got a chance to take soem close ups of the new Krag





Bore actually looks pretty good. Decent rifling and fairly shiny..

The bolt has a few codes on it