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I love those old sporterized Krags.
Well done.
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Been looking for a krag that is bubba'ed but still has a good barrel. Seems most I see the barrels are plain wore out. But yours is looking great Gnoahhh..mb
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Bob, the solution might be to snag a Krag with a good action and crap barrel and then re-barrel with a new Criterion barrel from the CMP (or direct from Criterion, a division of Krieger). They aren't expensive, as such things go, and shoot great - at least the handful of Criterion barrels I have on U.S. milsurps do. Since I haven't had a need to go that route recently I can't speak to current availability, but I would certainly explore that avenue if contemplating another project.
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Several years ago my old boss who retired called me and said he was moving to Virginia and was I interested in buying this. So I did. Minty bore. Piled it with all the other Krag sporters in the safe!
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Additional Krag porn I just love these old things.
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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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Things of beauty and a joy forever!
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"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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Additional Krag porn I just love these old things. Oh man. Those are awesome. If you die or need money think of Flave please.
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Additional Krag porn I just love these old things. Oh man. Those are awesome. If you die or need money think of Flave please. Ok. 😉
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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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Now that top rifle in the pic is a thing of beauty!
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When I was a kid, long before I could drive, I still had the Jones for a good deer rifle. I was at the grocery store, (rode my bicycle to the store for Mom), and saw, on the bulletin board of the small town store, an ad for two (2) Krag carbines, at prices I couldn't afford. I had to shuttle them off in the back of my mind, because I knew, even with help, I couldn't afford one, let alone two. I also missed a real Lee Enfield jungle carbine that ended up going for $8 at the farm auction, a little later. I'm probably better off not getting them, as that was a rabbit hole I couldn't have crawled out of. Missouri farmers had eclectic tastes, even back then.
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Now that top rifle in the pic is a thing of beauty! They all are.
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Krags , Oh My,
My first sporter was a krag. Bought several out of racks at the LGS. $ 40.00 / each.
I sported up one and shot it quite a bit. One does that when not a lot of options.
It too was heavy but shot well. In the '60's .
This thread has got me going ...have to shoot it.
Lovely rifles on the pics.
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The top rifle has a Sedgley like appearance, I've owned several Sedgley Springfields but never seen a Krag. On occasion Sedgley would do rifles other than Springfields, I owned an 1895 Winchester SRC that Sedgley had customized including machining a Lyman 48 receiver sight to fit..
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It wasn’t a Sedgley. But it was a nice rifle. I gave that rifle to a friend several years back. But I still have the other remaining three in those two pics.
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I had a Sedgley Krag back in another lifetime. It was a strange duck - they removed the box magazine and jerry-rigged the magazine to function without it, making it a three shooter (one up the spout and two in the magazine) and it fed smoothly. Cartridges fed into the magazine from topside. The forearm wood blended smoothly right over where the box had been. A very graceful rifle that I wish I still had, but it went away in the "great gun sell-off back then to finance a real estate purchase".
I had to believe it was built by Sedgley, what with all the Sedgely markings. I suppose a skilled craftsman could've altered the action at a later date, and crafted a new stock, but I doubt it.
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Thanks for the nostalgic link. M.Petrov and I had a couple pleasant phone conversations regarding Krag sporters instigated by that old thread.
The real expert on the subject passed away a few years ago - Mark Benenson. (He was here on the Fire occasionally under the name "Vigillinous"[sp]). That man had an incredible collection of jaw-dropping Krag sporters.
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Thanks for link! I enjoyed it!!!
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