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Here's my Krag sporter. I wasn't really looking for a Krag, but this one came along at a really good price and had a nice old Lyman peep installed. The original stock was poorly sporterized by someone, complete with approx. 10 lpi "checkering". I figured on restocking it, but the original stock was sound and had some nice grain, so I decided to try saving it. With all the work I did removing the previous crudely done sporterizing and adding a pistol grip, I think restocking from scratch would have taken less time. Last step was polishing out nearly a hundred years worth of abuse and pitting, then bluing.




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That's a real beauty!

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That's a handy looking rifle Greg

How does it shoot?
What are some of your favorite loads?

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Originally Posted By: Ken Nelson

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Does the CAL.22 LR receiver add any particular value to the gun? I would expect a .22 LR Krag barrel and bolt to be plenty scarce.


Ken, look here, these links might shed some light on the gallery 22 rimfire Krag subject

https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail...-practice-rifle

https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/springfield-gallery-practice-model-1898-krag-rifle-3759701

A little bit of information here

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=38310

Also this link will get you to a great video that discusses Krag history, including the gallery trainers

https://www.guns.com/news/2017/11/07/civ...eld-30-40-video


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Beautiful grip addition (along with the rest). I would not have guessed it was there except that it has to be given the original forearm.


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I agree with Brent on the quality of the grip addition job.
Do you have any photos of the process?
Did you do any sort of grain blending in the finish on the stock around the addition?

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Tinker,

Thanks for the links! It would be plenty cool to build a custom .22 sporter on the CAL .22 receiver but alas I don't foresee that in the budget. grin

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Ken


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Originally Posted By: Ken Nelson


Question:
Does the CAL.22 LR receiver add any particular value to the gun? I would expect a .22 LR Krag barrel and bolt to be plenty scarce.

Question: Do we know that the Krag 22's were 22LR or is there a possibility they were 22WRF?

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Ken you are welcome

The gallery rifles used the standard bolt and firing pin.

Getting that rifle set up for rimfire might be less expensive than you think.
Some of the rifles were set up with the bore below the firing pin axis, some were set up with the bore above.
Extraction wasn't common on all of them.

Your project wouldn't need to be a clone of any of the original rifles, as yours is no longer all there anyway, and you wouldn't need to alter anything with your action or bolt to make it happen.

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LRF get your Google fired up and do some digging.
Let us know what you find out.

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