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Hi all! I mostly post over at the Milsurps forum and started a thread on this firearm there. Another user referred me here.

A bit about me real quick. I'm a collector and an FFL. I sell stuff I'm not interested in to allow me to keep stuff I am interested in. I have a rather complete US Military arms collection and have recently been dipping into quality sporterized military arms...such as this Krag!

The work is really top notch but unfortunately, it's not named anywhere.
Sedgley and Stoeger as well as Griffin and Howe come to mind as custom Krag-smiths, so I scoured the web for some pictures of Krags refurbished by them.

By importing these images in AutoCad, I was able to "trace" the stock, scale it, and overlay it to my stock.

In this imgur album, I've included pictures of this Krag as well as my overlays.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I can get more pictures of course.
Thanks for any leads on this!

https://imgur.com/a/PfdGFwK

Sedgley Springfield 1903 sporters in my experience have the serial number on the receiver obliterated and another number stamped on the receiver, usually on the receiver tang. The caliber marking on the barrel has an "S" in a circle stamped above it.

G&H also obliterated the original numbers and put their own numbers on the barrel, together with the inscription "Griffin & Howe, New York, N.Y.". One of your G&H photos appears to be of a Springfield 1903, rather than a Krag.

That is actually a Krag by Griffin and Howe...it's just a single shot conversion. If you look closely at the bolt handle you can see it's a Krag.

I've added some more pictures of my Krag here:
https://imgur.com/a/g4a4CXX

I see no markings anywhere (even under the buttplate) to indicate who did the work. Note the brass plate under the trigger guard. That's taking up the slack in the trigger. Clever!

Also, I see you're in Puryear. I grew up in Murray and my family's from Dover. We were practically neighbors!

You're right, of course, and I can now see the bolt handle and the extractor. However, you have to admit that the resemblance between it and my G&H Springfield sporter is pretty strong.



I actually live about half way between Puryear and Buchanan, and about three miles from the Kentucky/Tennessee state line, about equidistant from Paris and Murray, so we usually shop for groceries in Murray, since there's no sales tax on food in Kentucky.

My guess is a Stoeger Peerless stock, is the butt plate plain steel?

Yours looks like a Stoeger Peerless. I'm thinking of having my Stoeger Krag checkered to give it a little bit of a finished look.

The buttplate is checkered. A Winchester style looks like.

When doing some pre-post research, I saw you mention your Stoeger. I didn�t see any pictures though. Could you share some? Also, how have you verified yours to be a Stoeger? Is it marked?

I�ve also thought of having mine checkered. I�m the cost for quality checkering is pretty steep. However, I paid something like $450 for this rifle a couple years ago. A little extra for checkering would still be a good deal.

I have no verification on mine except pictures in the Stoeger catalog.

Same here. I'm thinking the same about mine as well.
Would love to see pictures of yours!