New Krag owner, need some advice.

[butlersrangers]

The Krag carbine, Madsenshooter mentioned, that recently was broken-down and sold for parts on ebay, belonged to someone in Virginia. He described it as an "1899 or possibly 1898 carbine". I am guessing that the receiver was so corroded that maybe the date and serial number could not be read. The badly cracked and water damaged stock was an 1899 'long fore-arm' type. I posted a picture of the broken, corroded and badly worn or filed 1902 carbine sight on the KCA forum ('flood sight').

[madsenshooter]

Actually, it was readable, 1898, serial was 126???, IRC. I already took it out of my watch list or I'd look again, but I looked it up in Poyer once and it was in 98 carbine range. I really hated seeing 1 of 5000 reduced to parts, especially so since I don't have one!

[butlersrangers]

Thanks, Madsenshooter. That carbine certainly encountered catastrophe!

[psteinmayer]

It's a shame!