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That's definitely a very tasteful Krag. My compliments.

Still, I'd have to see how H4895 works with it. The case capacity and the pressure level of the Krag cartridge seems perfect for H4895.

I looked for a Krag to shoot cast bullets in for a long time. I could never find an original with a bore good enough to tolerate cast bullets.

What kind of barrel does that one of yours wear?

I believe it’s the factory barrel with some work done to it. Front sight is a slide on barrel band made by Lyman. It is in pretty good shape obviously, but has some pitting here and there.

You did good, then, if it's a factory barrel.

I wouldn't change nothing on it,.....except I would sell it to *me*.

But I can understand why you won't.

Maybe some old glass snake oil/medicine/pill bottles.

Beautiful rifle

Impossible. 6,000 years, max.

That reminds me, my grandma drove cross-country in the late 40s and stopped at the petrified forest in AZ.

She picked up a piece of petrified wood, beautiful agate and jasper. You'd get in big trouble for that today.

I have an ancient Greek silver coin that dates back to around the time of Alexander the Great, and a little chunk of pottery that I picked up on the grounds of the ruins of the palace at Knossos on Crete

A couple coins from late 1800's

1909 Winchester 29 pump 22

My wife

A stone from the Crazy Horse Memorial.

WIFE

Late 1700s, early 1800s Rittenhouse Potts surveyors instrument.

Was my 3rd great grandfather's.

I have a letter from my great grandfather in the box stating it's history. His grandfather, David Clouser laid out Clay County Missouri with it in the early/mid1800s.

Actually arrowheads but I don't consider them to be as valuable to me as the surveyors instrument.

Also have some round rocks somewhere from the Vista Circle in St Clair County Missouri. About baseball/softball sized. Guess some kind of meteor or whatever you space nuts call them crashed to earth a few days back, approximately 340 million years ago.

These rocks are everywhere around Osceola Mo.

1892 winchester 25-20 saddle ring carbine . handed down from my grandfather

1/2 gallon brass “trade kettle” (pot) from the 1820’s. “RE AD” marked straight razor bought from Belgium, age unknown but 1830’s style with horn scales.

I use them as part of my kit when reenacting.

A washstand that mas my great aunt's.

Somewhere I have a Precambrian rock sample. It's 500 million - 4 billion years old. Other than that, a muzzle loader from my Grandmothers side of the family. Unknown age or maker at the moment.

Model 1874 Sharps Business rifle. Invoiced out of Sharps in October of 1877 sent to B.Kittredge in Cincinnati, Ohio then sent to Dakota territory and sold to a Buffalo hunter. The gun then ended up on the Soholt ranch in the Black Hill of SD. When the ranch was sold and property auctioned off a local collector bought it and a few years later he passed and his brother disposed of his estate. A local gun dealer bought it and that's how it came to me. Yeah it still shoots. black powder paper patched bullets of lead shoots far kills dead...mb

My mom's diamond. At least a billion years old.