What should it be?

[mattgunguy]

She is a woman of peculiar interests when it comes to firearms. The gist of it is, the older & uglier, the better. She's a blackpowder junky through & through. First two rifles she ever bought all on here own, an 1873 Trapdoor & a Sharps src made 1863 (still in .54 percussion). Her favorite handgun is a beat up Russian Nagant. Heck, she drug home a Vetterli Carcano 1870/87/17 today. That'll be a fun plinker once I find a safe a loading for it. Fortunately I already reload 6.5x52mm Carcano for my 1891 long rifle. She bought us a second gun safe a few weeks back (hardware store had em on sale cheap), was supposedly for me. But strangely enough, it mostly her guns in it. She also spends more time at the gun shop than I do. Granted my oldest daughter works there.

It's just not the natural order of things.

I will definitely be updating folks on the progress of the Krag. Pretty sure that I'll go the saddle ring carbine route. I prefer to do things like this as something that never existed. Just another way for a collector to know that it's not an original. Should it ever get sold.