BANNERMAN KRAG? Krag rifle barrel cut-down to carbine length & installed in an '03 expertly cut-down & modified stock
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Category: Springfield Rifles - Military - Antique Rifles - Cartridge
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Seller: The Old Trooper
Member Since: 4/5/10
State: Florida
Country: United States
Phone: (808) 226-7345
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
3 days
Payment Types Accepted: Cashiers check
Description:
Not your run-of-the-mill cut-down Krag rifle. This one has all the earmarks of one done by the famous Francis Bannerman or possibly W. Stokes Kirk. If you have access to Lt. Col. Wm. Brophy's "The Krag Rifle", go to pages 177-179 and look at the pictures - this piece is a dead-ringer for the pictured one, minus the upper handguard. Col. Brophy describes in some detail how Bannerman's assembled these hybrid rifles out of various spare parts and ends by saying "Of couse the Bannerman Krags are certainly of interest to the military collector, and especially the Krag collector." This Krag has a 22" barrel with what appears to be an original Krag front sight. I cannot tell if it is a genuine Krag carbine barrel or cut-down rifle barrel - you will have to be the judge. The stock certainly looks to be a modified Springfield M1903 stock. The butt plate is smooth, but of exactly the same dimensions as a M98 Krag buttplate. I think it may be a surplus M1892 Krag butt plate. The barrel band, while decently made, is not for either the Krag or the '03. The bolt sleeve appears to be from a M1892 Krag. The rear sight is from a M1896 rifle. There is no handguard. As you can see, the butt swivel hole in the stock has been filled, as has been the '03 magazine floor plate hole and the Krag trigger guard installed. Someone installed sling swivels. The bore is about good, the rifling evident but with frosting in the grooves. It belongs in a Krag collection.
SOLD
Curio/Relic: Yes