[LDHare]

Gil/GregCandR:
Thank you for the compliment. As I said perviously, I've hunted for a Norwegian Krag for a very long time and I'm happy as a squirrel loose in a Planters nut processing plant with my new treasure

Gil: Your very kind to offer up a cleaning rod. I certainly appreciate it, and will happily compensate you for your time and effort. Please email/pm me whenever you find the rod and we'll work out the details. Thanks again.

Dutchman: It seems that the sudden burst of activity on this subject has highlighted a need to secure a permanent home for these fine old Krags and the underserved fans. Just a suggestion now


LDHare

 

[GregCandR]

Heh, Gil if you ever find another cleaning rod for a 1912 let me know. I guess mine is missing one too.

 

[gil]

Here is an html about the Norwegian Krags

http://www.cruffler.com/Features/OCT-01/historic-october01.html
gil

 

[GregCandR]

Hmmm it appears that my 1912 carbine has the early front bayonet/barrel band. And it does not have the other reinforcing band on it.

 

[Balder]

I too have been searching for a Norwegian Krag, at least until last weekend when I acquired the Mdl 1912 Engineers Carbine as shown below at a local gun show. ........

LD,

This appears to be a 1912 carbine, not an engineers'. Is it all matching? I have a hunch the bolt may not be. Beautiful specimen anyway!

Balder

 

[LDHare]

Balder:

Your quite correct. It is indeed a Mdl 1912 carbine. Not an Engineers carbine. My mistake.
Also, as you surmised, it is non-matching and the bolt is from the later production Krag Mdl. 1912 rifle, not the early production as indicated by the receiver serial number. It is unfortunate, but many of the surplus military arms imported into the USA in the early post WWII era were indiscriminately disassembled, cleaned and reassembled for sale as cheap shooters. I expect that this is not the case for those Krags that still reside in Norway.



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[Bayonetcollector]

You are correct that they were not treated like that here. You find matching examples, but these were sold off to civilians a long time ago, so the number of homemade sporters is large. Still you find nice, matching, original configuration rifles here every now and then.

 

[G43 Collector]

Hi
Very interesting topic. I to have a German marked krag that has had the stock cut off. Mine has no serial numbers what so ever. It is marked 1943 and V3 on the reciever. Waffenamts all over the place. I posted a few pics on the 98 mauser forum about a year or so ago. They seemed to think that the V3 is a pre production gun. Does anybody have any information on this? If anybody has a stock for this I would be very interested in paying a premiuim for. If you would like to see some pics I can post them.
Thanks
David

 

[Bayonetcollector]

I would like to see pics of it.

 

[G43 Collector]

Here are some pics. I got home late from work and could not do outside pics so quality is not perfect. If you have any input please post as I would like to know more on this rifle. Please do not pay attention to the back round as I do not keep my gun area very tidy.
Thanks

 

[tuco In Memoriam]

WOW some nice ones here. I do not own a Krag but if I could ever find a nice one at a good price it would come home with me. I have fired a few and they are outstanding in that regard.

 

[Merle1948]

WOW some nice ones here. I do not own a Krag but if I could ever find a nice one at a good price it would come home with me. I have fired a few and they are outstanding in that regard.

Thanks for the new board.
I hope to pick up some info for my US Krag.

 

[The Arctic Fox]

I have a 1895 Cavalry carbine dated 1902 and a 1912 Carbine dated 1916. Both however have had some sporterizing done, years before I aquired them. I was thinking about buying a repro. stock for the 1912. Fortunately the 1895 only had 4 inches chopped off. Both need handguards too. Both need work.
A friend has a complete Lang Krag that I might get someday.
I have always enjoyed the Norwegian Krags in 6.5!
Thank you for this new site.

 

[DOGolden]

Well, I've owned 3 Norwegian Krags over the years. All of them were sporterized to some extent. I traded one, sold one, & now have one left. My fascination with them is three fold:

1) I love the 6.55x55 cartridge,
2) They are unique, and
3) My mother is Norwegian.

 

[tdawg]

 

[mussonor]

The swastika were a common stamp for subcontactors that supplied barrels to the norwegian army for reconditioning (long before ww2). The early corrosive ammo "killed" a lot of the original barrels.

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