Care and feeding of the Krag

[Lord Eoin MacKenzie]

  My Krag carbine seems to be a Mutt.  Drilled and tapped for the receiver site.  Leather GI style sling w front band and and rear inletted swivel.  Old red rubber recoil pad.  It had Williams front and rear sites when I bought it from the pawn shop.
I bought  rear and front sites, from S&S.   Still thinking on a replacment barrel.  My local gunsmith thinks its shootable.
SARCO RECEIVER and Numrich modified 1903 barrels might get things better.    Now get the money from my budget???  LOL.

[1961MJS]

Hi
You can buy new barrels from Criterion / CMP.
Later

[Lord Eoin MacKenzie]

 Then i would have more in the barrel and handguard, than the cost over the counter.   I am trying to make it a shooter,  not museum piece.    And on a retirees budget.

[Baltimore Ed]

Is it shootable as it is now? Give it a try. Start with .311 200 gr boolits and go from there. Might surprise you. Good luck.

[Lord Eoin MacKenzie]

which receiver rear site was used on the DCM carbines?  and are they still available?

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[Major 2]

Went back and review this thread and saw this photo

That break was very similar to the Constabulary/cadet rifle I found at the Melbourne Fl. Gun show Jan 2020.
(completely separated along a grain line  but held together with electrical friction tape

I repaired it   

 

[Major 2]

I wrote the tutorial for the NCOWs Shootist , the repair turned out great.

[Baltimore Ed]

Very nice repair on my favorite version of a Krag. Looks good.

[Major 2]

Thank you Ed

I had no choice few Constabulary/cadet rifles still exist

I believe there were just 500 Constabulary produced and most went into Manilla Bay,   a very few survived 

I think just 400 cadet rifles... . 

any replacement stock would be rare and on some other somebody's  gun . 

I considered a Carbine stock , and retro fit the gun, but if a loose Carbine stock were found,  it'd be $ BUCKS
and the muzzle fit (for Bayonet )  a dead give away.