Bubbafied

Before a certain date a Krag in original condition was worthless.

During this time in history, to eek out some value from one you'd have to have had converted it into a hunting rifle.

Past a certain date, though, the values invert.

In some ways, it's a pity because the quality of the work is often outstanding.

Crawling through the local pawn-shops lately has revealed that skilled modifications to guns was relatively common way back.

Modifications that certainly cost good money to perform back in the day, but destroy the value today.

Again, sometimes it's a pity because many of these guns are still quite functional and often chambered in readily available cartridges.