Mike is right, the grafted butt Krag has been on offer for months. I had not previously seen that stunt of fitting a new back half to a Krag military stock. It took considerable skill but suggests that the maker had no confidence in his ability to inlet the front half. Curious, you would think that anyone who could do such a neat job could have managed the inletting. The second rifle is even more interesting, the stock is from an early Winchester 54. Even the stamped guard and floorplate look like 54 parts. Has a nice early Lyman on it. Since the original 54 is much like a M70pre64, this suggests the intriguing possibility that one could put a Krag into an M70 stock ... the hinged floorplate would be superfluous. Between the World Wars the country was not flush with cash and all sorts of tricks, some of them like these very clever, were used to improve Krags economically.
