Krag question

[barretcreek]

Local shop has a 1898 Springfield. 30 inch barrel, stock is a carbine type. Original or a swap?

[Dick Hosmer]

Swap.

[Kragrifle]

What caliber? Photos?

[madsenshooter]

"Carbine type", could mean a cutdown rifle stock that could be fixed with a new forearm, but with no pics we can only speculate.

[psteinmayer]

One surefire way to tell... Look at the front of the stock and see if the band retention is a band spring or a pin... also, see if it looks like a plug of different grain wood is present directly under the barrel at the front, which indicates a lightening channel being filled.