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Aside from cool Mauser sporters, who else here likes Krags as much as I do???????
I'm currently at three sporters. I've had others. But two are the old "NRA" cut down rifles, but they have mint bores and I've fitted a nice old Redfield receiver sight on the one. The inspector cartouches are immaculate. Shame they were cut.
The third is a sporter from I'd say the twenties. Schnable fore end with pistol grip. They are all in .30 U.S. Army. A ctg to which I am very partial.
They fit very well in my canvas wall tent camp will all the wood, wool , and canvas surroundings.
Bob N.
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I have always wanted a sporterized one to play with.....always keep an eye out for a cheap one. However, I haven't found one yet. For some reason the places I look think crappy hacked up krags are worth more than crappy hacked up way over priced mausers.
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Bob doesn't it bother you-even a little bit- to post a topic like that and then not provide a pic or two of those fine old Krags?
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LOL! I gotta update some of my pics! Yes it does bother me! Lemme see what I can find in my files!! I'm still on dial up and it takes forever to load a pic to photobucket!
Lemme look!
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Leadminer - "Bob doesn't it bother you-even a little bit- to post a topic like that and then not provide a pic or two of those fine old Krags? " IMO - that's not so bad... BUT he's had several Krags to play with while I'm still looking for one. I know...seek and ye shall find. Homesteader.
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How about this one I found in a pawn shop a few years back! After I found it I had to have it follow me home.
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I've yet to see one up close, but I have always been interested in them. Cool rifle taylorce1.
JOC was right. The 270 Winchester on a Model 70 is a great combination as is the 30/06 and 375 H&H
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Okay,,,,,,,, only 25 minutes to load these two! Whew! I took the little scope off this one, and put on the Redfield receiver sight off of this one! I'll try another pic later. Somewhere here I have pics of the real cav carbine that I had that someone re-blued and stuck a Pachmayr "white outline" field pad on! Argh!!!!!! Bob N
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Aside from cool Mauser sporters, who else here likes Krags as much as I do???????
I'm currently at three sporters. I've had others. But two are the old "NRA" cut down rifles, but they have mint bores and I've fitted a nice old Redfield receiver sight on the one. The inspector cartouches are immaculate. Shame they were cut.
The third is a sporter from I'd say the twenties. Schnable fore end with pistol grip. They are all in .30 U.S. Army. A ctg to which I am very partial.
They fit very well in my canvas wall tent camp will all the wood, wool , and canvas surroundings.
Bob N.
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I've had a couple over the years. They are very neat old rifles.
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Kaywoodie,
I really like the second one.
That Schnabel forearm does it for me.
Nice and short.
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I have had this one for many years. It has taken a couple of mule deer does and been on a few day hunts for moose. I don't know who stocked it but they did a pretty fair job and the checkering is very good. It is birds eye the full length of the stock.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Like the proverbial kid that always liked Fords because that's what his dad drove.... I, too; Luv the Krags. I have owned three of them in various cut down condition.
The last was gifted to me by my brother... It has a Redfield recv'r sight.
In addition to that I have a Ruger #3 in .30-40.
AFAIC, the .30-40 Krag, the .303 Brit, and the .308 Win are three peas-in-a-pod, ballistically... And that puts it in a very usable range for both power and moderate recoil... JMHO
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yep, interesting, well made rifles. This one took a doe and a turkey in 2010. It's been in my family for many years... I will probably give it to a younger family member at some point - and then go look for a nice sporter, ike the ones above
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WOW! Ya'll have some really nice old pieces! I think receiver sights rock!
Wished I could find someone who would make some of them nice old 220 grn RN "Full Patch" bullets to load up! Dunno what I'd do with the things, but they are just too classic.....
Hopefully, this weekend I can get outside and get some newer pics of the trio I have now. May throw in wifey's ol 95 Winchester in the pic too, as it is a "30 Army".
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That's better! Just getting back on the Fire tonight and really like what I'm seeing. Bob, I too,especially like that second one in your pics. Thanks, Bruce
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I have one and it's just as slick as my two M-S carbines. Superb workmanship.
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I don't have any butchered up Krag sporters or nice ones either cause when I find them it is allways 1 of 3 things wrong. 1. The barrel is a goner 2. I am broke at that moment in time 3. There is some guy 5 feet in frt of me holding it with 1 hand and the money to pay for it in the other. But I have picked up some 03's that somebody started on and wrecked their collector value , sure I love 03's too. Nice pictures all. Magnum man
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I don't have any butchered up Krag sporters or nice ones either cause when I find them it is allways 1 of 3 things wrong. 1. The barrel is a goner 2. I am broke at that moment in time 3. There is some guy 5 feet in frt of me holding it with 1 hand and the money to pay for it in the other. But I have picked up some 03's that somebody started on and wrecked their collector value , sure I love 03's too. Nice pictures all. Magnum man I have been lucky as I kinda get to cherry pick stuff as it comes into the shop. It's comes straight upstairs for us to give a good once over before hitting the sale racks. About 95% of all the Krags that come thru have bores that weren't cleaned since the charge up Kettle Hill! If the bore is decent, I'll usually spring for it. I've passed on BUNCHES! Especially unaltered military rifles as that always bring a premium. Regardless of bore condition. But I can usually puck up the old classic lookin' sporters for a song. Now, cool '03 sporters of the same vintage, properly done, are awesome things in their own right. They remind me of Papa Hemingway!!! BTW,along the same lines..... Had the absolute cleanest model 30 Remington I'd ever seen, come thru several weeks before Christmas. Went for $1200! Was a 30-06. Very nice piece, but as you alluded to in your earlier comment..... Not enuff cash at the time! Bob N.
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