Quote Originally Posted by Parashooter View Post
You can find the production figures for the 1896 and 1898 carbines in the standard references (Flayderman, Brophy, etc.). DCM prices are listed in Brophy, which also reproduces some period advertising showing Bannerman and Kirk prices.

Folks here are trying to tell you that it's not currently possible to either prove or disprove that a cut-down rifle like the one you describe is a "DCM carbine" - unless you have the DCM papers. Even if anyone bothered keeping serial records for obsolete arms leaving government ownership (unlikely at those prices and a decade before the Federal Firearms Act), it's highly improbable they were preserved 90 years. Basically, nobody thought is was even slightly important at the time - or ever would be.

Okay, thanks Parashooter.

And I am enjoying this Kragicon. So different from my other rifles. I still intend to post some pics for the group once the weather here clears. It's been raining off and on for 3 days.