Troopers, Sorry that I?ve been away for so long. But in my absence I managed to go on a road trip to Md to attend the annual Baltimore Antique Arms Show in March. Haven?t been able to get to one in years. I also figured that it would be a good place to sell my moulds so I carried them. They only allow pre 1898 handguns but up to WW2 rifles are ok. There were a lot of muzzle loaders, Civil War weapons, Krags, Springfields, Garands, Carbines, Winchester and Marlin lever rifles with all the belts, swords, uniforms and bayonets you could want. I saw a .45 Savage auto, a .45 Luger, a beautiful display of minty ?03 Springfields too. But about 2/3 of the way through I found 3 Krag rifles on a table ?priced to sell? as the dealer said. Two were clean but had sanded stocks, the third was gunked up with what I later discovered was cosmoline. The only semi clean spot was the cartouche, the stock was sticky and the bolt would barely move. I moved on and made a mould sale but when I returned from my truck I went back, it was still there, I dickered with the guy and he dropped 45.00 off so I bought it. After a lot of cleaning it turned out to be an 1896 rifle [it was labeled 1898 but you couldn?t see the date for the gunk] in exceptional shape. Btw, I sold 510.00 worth of moulds and only paid 650.00 for my Krag. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn covered in cosmoline once in a while.