Where Did You Find Yours

[RangeHound]

I have looking for a Krag in the usual places like Gun Broker, For Trade on forums. Curious where did the members on here find their Krag?

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[RudyN]

I happened to wander in to a local gun shop and there was a 1898 Krag in the rack and it is now mine. ☺

[browningautorifle]

Chilliwack gun show, 2014, sporterized down to look like a school gun or Constabulary carbine. It has a near perfect barrel, so I payed him his $200 and started the hunt for brass and dies. I have the dies and quite a bit of brass, problem is much of it doesn't last too long and cracks. Mine's an 1898...

[Littlejohn]

I have looking for a Krag in the usual places like Gun Broker, For Trade on forums. Curious where did the members on here find their Krag?

Found my sportered 1896 in a pawn shop in Duluth, Minnesota.
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[Salt Flat]

I found the rifle and one of the carbines at gunshows. The other two carbines came from the same pawn shop but several years apart. The 3 carbines are all really cut down rifles but one has a real carbine stock. Salt Flat

[butlersrangers]

My best luck on complete and relatively correct Krag rifles has been gun shows. Parts and project guns have been 'deer rifles' that showed up at a local gun shop and on GunBroker. I have gotten a lot of small parts on ebay. (It always pays to be patient. Stuff shows up eventually). I have had some of my 'most fun' with sporterized Krags that didn't cost much and had great bores!

[RangeHound]

Very nice collection..... Thanks for sharing.

[browningautorifle]

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Ok then I better put in a pic so you can at least see what I'm starting with.

[butlersrangers]

Jim/BAR: That's a nice cut-down Krag to play with. If it were mine, I would sure be tempted to find and fit a front band/bayonet-lug to complete the 'school rifle' look.
You mentioned your 'brass' is splitting. (In what area? Neck or Case Head?). If the necks are splitting have you tried annealing the case mouths? If cases are stretching and beginning to separate at the head, have the Head-space checked and a "new" bolt might solve the problem. With the ".30-40 Army", it is always good to 'back-off' the Resizing Die a turn or two and 'neck-size only'. This also avoids working the case-shoulder, which has been nicely 'fire-formed' to your rifle's chamber.

[browningautorifle]

You have a point about the neck only. I was doing that originally and it was ok with what I had, but this brass in some cases is over 100 years old. It's all I can get around here and when I pulled it down for the brass and bullets, some bullets had corrosion at the base. One case had powder that had virtually turned back to a liquid. All primers would be dead I should think, or unreliable at best. I had F(A) 00, F(A)99, WRA 31, RA 17,WRA Co 30 USG and a few others, all 220 gr ball bullets. I'd suspect the breakdown of components in some cases is at least partly responsible. The splitting is at the base, half way up, and at the shoulder. Mostly lengthwise.

The barrel in this is about perfect, so I had no problem paying him the whole $200 CDN. I have a front band and a bayonet, a member here was kind enough to pull it out of his pocket during a dope deal we had happening...It shall become a school gun eventually. I know there are some here that will ask "Why"...you don't really need to put a bayonet on it...but, I want to. The bayonet had been hit with a grinder and I had to draw file the ugly out of it. It looks good now. The scabbard is a picket pin case that was attacked by a rodent at some point. I'll have to bone that damage down too... Many things on the work bench before I can think of myself...you guys understand I'm sure.