thanks

Ballpark value... 400 is a good guess.
The rear sight being missing sucks...the OEM are quite well made and intricate. The sights are quite expensive to source and replace.
 
Your rifle was modified to carbine configuration by the US military arsenal at Benicia Arsenal. These were done for the NRA, starting around 1926 ish. The stock is a carbine stock or was one until it was inleted for the rear sight. Too bad it's value for the stock alone is worth more than $400. You can verify if it was a carbine stock by removing the butt plate, if it has a space for a disassembled cleaning rod, it's a carbine stock.

The front sight is a 1903 Springfield sight, it had removable front sight blades, unlike the Krag front sight. Looks to be brazed on like the rear sight. As mentioned, it's missing the rear sight as well as the handguard..

Here is a 1926 NRA krag...

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diabeticfreak said:
I regret not picking up a sporterized Norwegian Krag a few years ago. It was in 6.5x55 if I remember correctly, and would have made a great woods gun. Damn my younger self!
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They were very smooth to operate.

Sadly, most of the rifles that came into Canada had badly pitted bores.

Not all of them, if you ordered them International Firearms or one of the other importers at the time, about 30% of them had very good to excellent bores. Sadly, most of them had their furniture altered in the UK, before they came to North America. They started out as very nice military carbines before they were "customized" to make them more appealing to the North American shooters.

They were cheap at the time, because ammunition was unavailable, unless you could find some CIL or Imperial hunting ammo.

A lot of people also didn't like the swing out, side loading gate. There have to be several thousand of them squirreled away in dark closets. International didn't have a return policy on milsurps, unless they were broken. They were fairly careful to grade the rifles correctly with the proper caveats.
 
I love the Krag rifles, they are very smooth. The feature I like is being able to top up your mag with the bolt closed and unload without cycling the rounds through the action (ie Mauser)
 
Pblatzz said:
I love the Krag rifles, they are very smooth. The feature I like is being able to top up your mag with the bolt closed and unload without cycling the rounds through the action (ie Mauser)
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I love mine as well, for the same reason. It's got a great bore, tough outer finish though. Cut down bbl with the front sight Soldered on all Catta-wom-puss sadly.
And if it's a carbine...it was worth 'Big Cake'... they are so rare that I didn't even consider it an option.
I'm still standing by the 400 number though...unless they mounted that sight at the arsenal. But I'm pretty sure they didn't braze the sight on...
Who amoung us would spend $$$ on a carbine that has had Bubba 'laying into it' with a torch? The receivers are known to be suspect as far as metalurgy to begin with. It's one thing Silver Soldering a sight onto a barrel...450-600 F...but brazing a peep onto a receiver at 1100-1500 F ?
OP; you didn't want to hear that...I know, sorry to burst your bubble if you were seeing a Grand or something. Even the sight is likely a lower value on it's own...Bubba with a torch....spooky
 
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