My Hermit's Pass Krag

[Richard Flanders]

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.

[George Lang]

my first rifle, a gift from my Dad, came from Ye Olde Hunter. It is an El Tigre SRC 44-40 Spainish copy of the Winchester 1892 and I still have it 67 years later.

[Phil Yearout]

Those old magazine ads were wonderful. I remember drooling over them without ever having the hope of buying anything!

[Bill Murphy]

Kevin is right about the mystique of Washington, D.C. and smallbore Parkers. Many of them never left the area. I have two 28 gauge Parkers from Billy Wagner's shop and both were found within a few miles of the Pennsylvania Avenue sports emporium.

[OH Osthaus]

the first center fire rifle I fired as a kid was a Krag

that's when I learned about the trilogy of a Krag, a thumb and a nose

nice rifle Frank - I bet it would be impossible to count the Penn's woods deer taken with one

[Double Trouble]

Frank - that is a SWEET Krag ! I saw a guy walking one around during a gun show a few years back. It had a custom maple stock with an intense curl to the grain. (It looked like a Krag & an old PA longrifle had a baby !) The stock was just a tiny bit "fat." I think it needed to be slimmed down a bit to look/feel "perfect." If it wasn't for that, I would have bought it on the spot. I have an 1892 (with the typical arsenal upgrades) that I love to shoot. Accurate as hell ! For the life of me, I cannot understand why I only own ONE Krag...