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I have a cosmetic question. This Krag has nothing holding it into the stock but the two trigger guard screws. I planned on making a barrel band from a barrel band sling mount.

I picked up a barrel band and screw from a Savage 340. It would be much less work but is kind of thin, and fits the barrel a little farther up (about the middle of the forarm checkering) than where I pictured the band to be.

Three questions....

Ive never seen one up close, is the typical barrel band made of thin stock or are they usually a little thicker.

Where do the typically sit in relation to the forarm? (middle, toward the tip)

Would I want to find a screw echelon for the underside or is just the screw head enough?

here are pics of the band in question.




This is about where it would sit in relation to the forend.


I like this rifle and don't want to be bubba.

IMO such band should sit tight in the stock but let the barrel float free when shooting. So it seems that you could assembly the band a tad forward, maybe just in front of the checkering.

I'm looking for an old, sporterized Krag myself, as they have a long history in our family, here seen in 1935 at a picnic celebrating a successful Oregon Mulie hunt by a couple generations of ranch women.



Just an opinion, but I don't believe that light, stamped band matches the rifle very well in either construction or quality. Were this rifle one of mine, I'd dovetail in a storebought dovetail filler block to the underside of the barrel beneath the forestock, drilled and tapped for a swivel base.

Otherwise I'd spring for a milled band. These are 200-yard-max deer rifles, not thousand-yard target guns. Accuracy isn't a big issue.

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