Thanks for the kind words butlersrangers. Like I said, I know just enough about Kragcarbines to be dangerous to my wallet. When I first saw this one, I knew that the barrel was cut down from a rifle and the sling bar told me that the stock was probably a real carbine stock. I am not sure if I would have bought it if the price had been higher or the bore was bad, but when I looked down the tube, the bore looked like a brand new barrel inside. At first I was going to harvest the stock and sell off the bits and pieces and make a bit of money. But it has grown on me since then and now I am going to leave it alone and just enjoy it as a nice shooter.