![]() Of course, the right buyer would need to be found and that might be a trick. Your gun may have some degree of collectibility over the typical chopped Krag depending on the amount of originality remains. They are considered an 1896 model but a few were made in late 1895 and were marked so. I don't think it was standard practice but I have seen it with some of the Krags that have passed through my hands.īy the way, an 1895 marked Krag reciever is an uncommon designation. I immediately went to the dealer and picked out what looked to be the nicest one of the lot. Left side of stock below receiver stamped with 'JLA' inspectors cartouche and dated '1901.' Receiver reads: 'U.S. You might find the serial number on various parts as it was not uncommon to have stocks, buttplates, bolts, and the like stamped with the same serial number as the receiver. It must have been in the late 1960s when we read a newspaper notice that a local gun dealer won a bid from the Pennsylvania State Police to buy a dozen or so 30-40 Krag carbines the police no longer required for their mounted troops. ![]() ![]() I believe it was 1896 that that practice was stopped and replaced by a system that changed model number only when a significant change occurred.Īs the last Krag rifles rolled out of the Springfield Armory by 1903 or thereabouts, your rifle does not seem to "need" a serial number but rest assured it did at one time. If this is a former military Krag-Jorgensen bolt action rifle, the gun was built in 1895 as the year of manufacture was the "model number" at that time. ![]()
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