It's been sportified and rechambered in .300 Savage. It looks like the work was well done, but...
It's living breathing proof that even a rifle you can buy for $1.25 might be worth a lot more someday; even more if you hadn't attempted to make it a deer rifle.
If you act quickly, you can own this fine example of gunsmithing!
Many more pics below the fold!
Ugh. That makes my heart hurt.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was sporterized because someone wanted a shooting piece? I have a sporterized US Krag, and like it just fine. (And WHERE would I get old Norwegian ammunition, at least without paying through the nose for each round?)
ReplyDeleteThen they fucked themselves picking .300 Savage. While 6.5x55mm is expensive, it's also commonly available.
DeleteBut the point, if you knew a damn thing about Norwegian Krags, is they gutted a super rare collectible rifle to make a shooter out of it when common as rocks US Krags were everywhere.
Didn't know there was a difference other than caliber.
DeleteThe differences between Krags are like the differences between Mausers. Numerous, small but significant.
DeleteThe main distinction of the Norwegian and Danish KayJay's over their US counterparts is scarcity in the US market. They've never been common and for the most part even Bubba realized that and contained his depredations to the 15¢ a barrel ex-US guns.
While condemning Bubba for ruining this Krag I should like to mention that sportified Krags often show actual talent and skill in their conversion to deer assassination bullet launchers. Unlike later attempts to do the same thing to Enfields and Mosins.
It's enough to make a grown man cry... :-( I've wanted a Krag for a long time but anything that hasn't been hacked to practically unrecognizable is unobtanium expensive these days... :-(
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