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Unread 11-13-2018, 06:24 PM   #11
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would like to add one of them kraks to my collection but they are to high now i ve waited to late....do have a mauser 8 mm rifle like new still in military specks also have a sporterized jap rifle carbine in 6.5 jap but somebody chambered it to 257 roberts then i had it chambered to 25-06.... then a 1903 remington in 30-06...charlie
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Unread 11-13-2018, 06:28 PM   #12
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I have researched my 1903 Springfields and Colt pocket .32s, but never thought about researching my Krags. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Thanks everyone for your comments. I forgot to mention the barrel is trimmed to 24" and nicely crowned, front sight ramp is sweated on, Redfield type but unmarked. Front sight is a Marbles.
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Frank, Mine is also 24", and I keep reminding myself, I need a 30 caliber crowning tool. what crown there is on mine was file formed on the lathe.
I Like your stock a lot, and think it's perhaps the nicest conversion of an original stock. Checkering and color are great
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Frank my first deer rifle was an 189? Argentine Mauser bought for me by my dad when I was 12. 7.65 Argentine and we bought at Woolworths in downtown Houston. the place had racks of military surplus rifles. I later got a dandy 6.5x55 SWedish Mauser Carbine probably $18 and those long nickel plated bullets. Springfields o3A3 ,British 303 Jungle carbines with flash hider, 1898 Mausers, M1 Carbines, Garands 30/06 you name it a kid could get lost. I sporterized the Argentne myself and shot a few deer with it til I got a Swede Carbine. Great memories. Thx for sharing
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David, just from your description I'd say your first rifle is in the second pic, lower rack, second from right = Argentine M1891 Mauser. I remember seeing cardboard barrels full of them, all excellent, while as a young pup with Mom and my grandmother while they shopped at a dry goods store in Scranton. Yep, those were the days …..

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I spent many hours in my youth at the Hunter's Lodge, later known as Ye Olde Hunter, then Potomac Arms. Several great guns in my collection came from that store on the Potomac River. Sadly, not too long ago, it disappeared. I remember massive field pieces displayed in the fenced parking lot with prices comparable to a new set of tires for your car.
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Notice in the ad that The Hunter's Lodge admitted to being affiliated with Interarms. This connection seems to have been swept under the rug in later years, maybe because of some of the shady activities of the owner of Interarms. You could throw a rock from the Hunter's Lodge facility to the Interarms building. Again, in later years, the Interarms building was completely devoid of signage and the doors were locked.
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Frank's Ye Olde Hunter ads made me nostalgic. I opened Google Earth and found I don't see anything familiar along the Alexandria waterfront. The address of Potomac Arms was Zero Prince Street. I no longer own any of the guns I bought there. Best gun I ever saw there I put Kevin onto, and he wrote his article "Grandma's Gun" for The Double Gun Journal about it.
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There's a stock Krag in my family. My youngest brother has it. Not sure where my grandfather got it but he served in Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish American War. We had a McClellan saddle on the farm also, likely from his service there also. I have old pictures of him sitting on a horse with a McClellan while serving. I've never been able to figure out who the experienced torture expert was that invented that diabolic saddle.
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