Just when I thought I'd seen it all.

[andiarisaka]

Just when I thought I'd seen it all Krag-wise, here's an experimental Krag with a cartridge counter mechanism. Dig around a little while you're there, there's also an 1892 done up like a school gun, but with a cleaning rod. Lot 1019: *MODEL 1898 KRAG RIFLE WITH THE PARKHURST-ZALINSKI CARTRIDGE COUNTER/INDEXING ATTACHMENT. - Featured on Artfact.com It looks to have some sort of loaded chamber indicator on the extractor too. Well no, judging by where the little tab fits through the bolt, it would indicate when the rifle was cocked, I think it would be just as easy to look at the back of the bolt. Folks were sure fond of gadgets in 1901.

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[5MadFarmers]

Just when I thought I'd seen it all Krag-wise, here's an experimental Krag with a cartridge counter mechanism. Dig around a little while you're there, there's also an 1892 done up like a school gun, but with a cleaning rod. Lot 1019: *MODEL 1898 KRAG RIFLE WITH THE PARKHURST-ZALINSKI CARTRIDGE COUNTER/INDEXING ATTACHMENT. - Featured on Artfact.com It looks to have some sort of loaded chamber indicator on the extractor too. Well no, judging by where the little tab fits through the bolt, it would indicate when the rifle was cocked, I think it would be just as easy to look at the back of the bolt. Folks were sure fond of gadgets in 1901.

Seems like a difficult way to link to one of tomorrow's auction lots.

da gun


*MODEL 1898 KRAG RIFLE WITH THE PARKHURST-ZALINSKI CARTRIDGE COUNTER/INDEXING ATTACHMENT. SN 111342. Cal. 30/40. 30" bbl. This '98 Krag is equipped with the ultra-rare Parkhurst/Zalinski cartridge counter/indexing attachment. This attachment encompasses three parts, first of which is attached to the receiver at the mag door, a second being a cam on the extractor and the third being a pin and spring on the receiver cover on the left hand side as a method of counting and/or indexing the cartridges as they pass through from the mag to the chamber. The rifle also has stamped into the side of the buttstock Parkhurst-Zalinski Index Attachment Feb 1901. Through the early stages of the Krag through the '03 Springfield there are many variations and attempts to improve them. PROVENANCE: Peter Wainwright Collection. CONDITION: Rifle shows, overall, very good condition with the bbl and receiver showing 85-90% orig blue, thinning in spots. Bolt shows bright with some spotting, with the blue on the extractor mellowing. Triggerguard and bbl bands show 85-95% of orig blue with some scratching present. Buttstock and handguards show very good, with only light scuffing and bruising and a very crisp 1898 dated cartouche and circle P. Buttplate shows approx 75% of orig finish with a nickel oiler in the buttstock. Mechanics are crisp with the bore being somewhat bright, showing minimal wear. This rifle shows, overall, to be a very fine example of a '98 Krag with the Parkhurst/Zalinski indexing attachment. 4-38207 BEK6 (12,000-17,000)

No, I don't troll them too. Why you ask?

[5MadFarmers]

Just for the curious....

"The resulting gun has been called the model of 1898, and the manufacture was commenced July 1, 1898."

Take that and:

"There were manufactured at the Armory during the year ended June 30, 1898, 29,566 magazine rifles and 12,022 magazine carbines" and we can say that they didn't make 1898s in June....

and

"The average daily output of finished arms prior to March 15, 1898, was 120 per day. On March 23 this was increased to 140, on May 26 to 160, on June 13 to 200, on June 20 to 240, on June 26 to 280, on July 11 to 300, and on July 20 to 340. The average daily output during the week ended August 13 was 363."

Lowest observed 1898 serial number is in the upper 109K range.

Which would tend to indicate that gun was originally oiled and crated in "July 1898" as an educated guess.

Notice that sliding production scale though? It's tricky math to calculate a born on date. That particular one is simply at an intersection which is well documented.

When it received it's clippy bits is another story entirely. Not willing to dig but it'd be easy to find.