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1898 ser.no, question
I have a 1898 with ser. No 213128. My question is, can you tell by the ser. No, if it was a rifle or carbine? Thank you all.
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04-01-2014 11:08 PM
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I have a SRS book on serial numbers and I look at numbers around that one. They're rifles, so this one should be also. 212540 and 213202 and many either side are rifles. There aren't any Carbines for quite a distance.
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Thank you sir, I really appreciate the reply.
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That's because there were only 5000 1898 carbines made, and their serial # range was about 100,000 below this one.
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There are a few carbine numbers seem to fall indiscriminate in the serial range, but the next block I think appeared way off this group of numbers, like Andiarisaka states...
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ANY Krag "carbine" with an 1898 receiver over about 139000 is a cut-down rifle, or an out-and-out fake, made with intent to defraud. Period. When carbine production re-started - around 220000 (actual nunber isn't critical in the contaxt of this post) the receivers were marked "Model 1899".
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