Springfield Krag Serial Number Lookup

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Springfield Krag Serial Number Lookup

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and preservation of the Krag Rifle.

During the ten years (1894-1904) of Krag production less than 500,000 arms were completed and changes to reduce costs and facilitate ease of manufacture resulted in non-interchangeability of parts requiring many new model designations. All were manufactured at Springfield Armory in Massachusetts.
Krag Model 1898 bolt action rifle circaU.S. Krag Model 1898 bolt action rifle circa 1901 serial number 308775; 30-40 Krag, walnut stock, blued finish, marked 'U.S. MODEL 1898 SPRINGFIELD ARMORY Model 1898 Krag Bolt Action Rifle, c. 1899, Model 1898 Krag Bolt Action Rifle, c. 1899, serial number160854, walnut stock with no visible cartouche.

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Hal Beatty Ned Butts Tom Butts William Butts Bruce Canfield Tom Carmichael Dave Clark Allan Cors Scott Duff Alain Duquette	John Fleming Bion Hoeg Dick Hosmer Clyde Howard Craig Kirkup Dan Klemens Dan Lowery Anthony Marinaro Bob Meyer Richard Mohler	Bill Mook Tom Pearce Gary Peer Phil Polley Carol & Mike Popernack Henry Queener Sol Rabinowitz Mike Raborn Doug Rainbow Bruce Rose	Terry Roth John Spangler John Vagnetti Martin Wagner Carl Weiss Tom Welch Charlie Wheeler Chuck Wright

A Brief History of Krag-Jorgensen Rifles and Carbines

By Tom Pearce

U.S. Magazine Rifles and Carbines Models of 1892 through 1899

The desire to improve upon the then standard caliber .45 black powder arms, from tests conducted during 1889 and 1890, brought about the first caliber .30 smokeless-powder cartridge to be adopted by the United States.

Selection of magazine arms from various U.S. and foreign inventors during the early 1890’s, resulted in final approval of the five shot bolt-action weapon that was loaded through a hinged gate on the right side of the receiver. This design was submitted by Col. Ole Krag and Eric Jorgensen of Norway in 1892. Common names given were; “Krag-Jorgensen”,“.30-40 Krag” or simply “Krags”.

During the ten years (1894-1904) of Krag production less than 500,000 arms were completed and changes to reduce costs and facilitate ease of manufacture resulted in non-interchangeability of parts requiring many new model designations. All were manufactured at Springfield Armory in Massachusetts. Similarly with improvements to the smokeless-powder base, which effected trajectory, front and rear sights were recalibrated often, requiring again, many rear sight model designations.

Though short lived, the discoveries through trial and error, experiments with prototypes and in field usage during the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection, gave the foundation to U.S. military shoulder arms that we have today.

Rifles, Models of 1892, 1896 and 1898

Carbines, Models of 1892 (Prototype), 1896, 1898 and 1899

Rear Sights, Models of 1892, 1896, 1898, 1901 and 1902

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