I have looked through Springfield Armory Shoulder Weapons, 1795-1968, by Robert W. D. Ball. Although there are numerous pictures and written material about Krag rifles there is no mention of a National Match Krag. The term "National Match" has been adopted by various firearm manufacturers to describe their products, I believe it was originally only used to describe match versions of the 1903 Rifle, M1 Rifle, M14 Rifle and Model 1911A1 Pistol that were products of the US owned and operated Springfield Armory and later by Rock Island Arsenal.
That is 100% correct-- Just like Trap and Trap Grade have been used over past 100 plus years in the shotgun realm--Best example I can think of-- a hunting pal has a 1938 mfg. Model 21- a 20 gauge Trap Grade Skeet Gun- 28" WS-1 and Ws-2 choked barrels-- This is a dandy bird gun, and also useful at skeet and SC, but it is no more a Trap Gun than is a Louisville Slugger. Another example- this past Sat Son-in-law and I went to a small local gun show at an area Gun Club- nice small group, mostly rural- One gentleman had what he claimed was a NM M-1 Garand, for sale at the bargain price of $750--he allowed me to look it over thoroughly, and here's what I found- the Armory and serial number stampings from the rear receiver had been ground completely off, both front and rear top hand-guards had been replaced, as was the stacking swivel, the bore was fairly well shot out (BFA and tracer ammo will do that) plus you could see the scraping of the parkerized finish at the muzzle from the use of either a BFA adaptor or a grenade launch mounting device, there was a Import marking stamp on the muzzle area behind the front sight at at same aligment with the operating rod- some dealer in St. Albans VT- However, it did have a NM stamped operating rod- hence this gent thought he was buying a NM Garand. Not wanting to either (1) burst his bubble or (2) buy another Garand I really don't need or wish to overhaul-- I thanked him and said nothing--
