Picked up one of my unicorns yesterday.

[bigben]

Friday i stopped in at a local gun shop and had a look around. I first spotted a springfield 1903. There was a gentleman right there looking at another old milsurplus rifle.  I looked over the 1903 and admired the gun work done to the sporterized 30-06. The fella said hi and put the gun back he was looking at. We started talking and i realized the gun he put back was a krag jorgenson. I picked it up and looked at it for several minutes and the price tag was $200. We continued talking for a bit more but i walked out empty handed.

A bit backstory i remember growing up and thanksgiving the uncles would drive to the cabin and shoot their "deer" rifles in for the upcoming season. I remember my one uncle always used one of "paps" guns and it was a dark colored rifle with a weird magizene contraption. Threw the years i had a fondness for that old krag. To the point i looked for years and only ever found them for 3-500$. And mist had shot out bores and shoddy gun work. I almost bought a nice looking appearance wise krag but the barrel was shot.

Friday night the girlfriend and i had dinner dates with my parents and her parents. I had brought up to her father about this krag i almost bought. I said the price and he said i would be a fool not too buy it. The next morning i went right back to the gun shop and picked it up woth a box of ammo 250$

It sports iron sights and a bubba'd stock. The bore was a bit green and fuzzy but rifling was pronounced threw the gunk. I cleaned it up this morning and took it to the range. I was pleasantly surprised to see a three shot group at 50yds like this.





Its drilled and tapped for scope mounts and im able to get the mounts. So im thinking about putting a 4x scope on it.

[coyote101]

Nice Ben. I'd say you got quite a deal. 

Pat

[Okanagan]

Good buy.  And that's an impressive group with open sights on a new-to-you rifle!

[Dave]

Nice Ben.  And you know you'll never miss that $200, but would later beat yourself up on not acting on the opportunity.

[bigben]

Thanks fellas impretty pleased with the purchase. Im hoping to harvest a deer with one of my old milsurplus guns next season

[HaMeR]

Nice looking rifle & great grab Ben!! Looks like you'll be hunting with one of your Uncles next year too!!

This story is just one of the reasons I enjoy the LBL so much.

[Hawks Feather]

Nice looking rifle and pretty impressive target.  Now you just have to wait till next year's deer season.

Jerry

[bigben]

He hardly ever brings his out anymore. He picked a 300 mag and he uses that. I am one of the few that do not use a magnum caliber for deer in our cabin.

Yesterday my girlfriends step father showed me his krags he has. His father was a well known gunsmith in the area. Two of them are still chambered in 30-40 krag. He however trimmed the mag opening and made it so it looks like a regular gun. It loads from the top and there is a lever on the side to load it. Very unique setup. That one is a danish one. The other one is apart and being finished at some point by him. The final one he made into a 45-70. It has high rise scope mounts that has a peep on it. Has inlays in the wood as well. Really well made. His gun work was excellent. Someday i might be half as good as he was.

[FinsnFur]

Nice. Now THAT's a group!

[Frogman]

Good shooting!

Jim