Nifty!

Mmmm... moist nuggets

Sounds like a real shoulder pounder.

Nagants have shot through the roof in price lately.

Seen some dealers trying to get $600 for crunchy and well used examples.

Been looking for a decent Krag for myself lately, but I'm mostly finding sporterized trash and decent looking, but seriously overpriced stuff.

-Badger-

Yeah, seen sported 1903s and Krags but an un-fudded one is scarce.

The sheer hell of it is- I have sources for barrels, wood forends for replacing butchered stocks and the skill developed over decades of practical experience to match a forend seamlessly.

Can't find a gun thats really worth the effort because the butt was usually also "carved"...if you can call it that... or broken or splintered in various ways so that theres just not that much left to work with.
I can fix surprisingly badly broken wood- I've done it often enough to know I can.

I can get new stocks.
They run about $250-$275.

But unless I turn up a barreled complete action, or even just a complete action without a barrel and get a new one, it just does not seem worth it.

I'd pretty much be making an entirely new rifle.
Thats fine for plinking and maybe re-enacting, if I wanted to go that route.

But I'm kind of looking more for an original thats reasonable to restore, and a decent plinker without paying through the ass to get it.

And its really preferable to find one made before 1898 so that its an antique and can be mailed directly to me legally.

The options are there, but usually for more cash than I want to pay.


-Badger-

I've got a Krag long rifle that some butthead butchered the stock on and had a couple of scope mounts added, (now missing), it's been sitting around for ages.

Lets go to PMs.

Traded a Ruger 10/22 for a Smith Corona 03-A3 .30/06 that has a new sporter stock and Lyman 48 target sights. Someone's post war match rifle. Good bore, haven't had a chance to shoot it yet. Pawn shop wanted $319 for it, took the 10/22 as even trade. I pretty much got the target sights with the rifle attached.

Worst part about the Krag is finding ammo.

Very cool find!

Saw three M91-30 rifles in a local shop, prices at $350 each. A month later, one remained. Yet the M1891 round is nearly impossible to find now. I use a cartridge adapter to run .32 ACP, .32 S & W Short and Long, and .32 H & R Mag in a Sako M39.

Those inserts can be fun. Have one in .30/06 that works in a Smith Corona 03A3 sporter

I started with 7.62 x 54 r early on, so have piles of it, both milsurp Berdan (which I can reload) as well as commercial Boxer.

Just looked up that round, based on the .338 Lapua. Sounds like an auto loading version of the .50/70. Chamber cast would be a good idea

Closer to 50-90 in size and fierce for power, Though now it seems to be in .50 Alaskan, is still a very high power cartridge. Don't plan to load it anywhere near that hot.

Just looked at the bull pup rifle the Russians have for that round, looks like one of your designs from Albedo.

You should probably “slug” the barrel And chamber , just to be sure, so you have a chamber casting to match to a case. Still, that’s a very interesting find, and if it is something that big, where do you get the brass?

The closer I look, it is shaping up to be .50 Alaskan, which is available, though I could convert other brass, like 50-90 Shilo.

Time for a chamber cast.

Everyone on the range will know when you touch that one off. Assuming you can find or fabricate ammunition.

Sounds like a seriously cool find. Let us know if & when you get to fire the blessed thing!

I have 3 Nagants and a Nagant revolver, but none sporterized. I have a spoterized Enfield .303 though 👍

I've got several MN rifles of various vintages, the short Chinese carbine is the least fun to shoot ( or most fun if you like recoil and fireworks) Have a fake Enfield "Jungle Carbine" , converted like the original , but not an original.

I also smith. I built this: https://www.deviantart.com/hectored.....Done-500246869

Woah! Interesting find.

Sounds like a portable demolition device!

I respect those rifles but they have a GHASTLY bolt action. The Krag and the Enfields spoiled me. But, if you can get 'em to cycle, they'll shoot for you, and the history just DRIPS off them.

This MN has been really smoothed out and the action cycles as good as any bolt gun I've handled. The cocking on closing the bolt is very much easy peasy. Yeah, a stock MN can be a stiff clanker.

Pretty cool stuff.