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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Wonder if we have any Krag–Jørgensen rifles still sitting around?


26 posted on 04/28/2017 5:15:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A bit of trivia for you. The Krag is the rifle holding the medal to the ribbon on the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. The only reason I know this is I was asked what the rifle was during a Marine of the Quarter Board when I was a young LCpl.


33 posted on 04/28/2017 5:56:35 PM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wonder if we have any Krag–Jørgensen rifles still sitting around?

In the 1980s, we still had hundreds of thousands of rounds worth of .30-40 ammunition [.30 Government] in storage bunkers at the Naval Weapons Support Center at Crane, Indiana, turn-ins from WWII when the Krags were issued to state militia forces filling in for their called-up National Guardsmen.

51 posted on 04/29/2017 7:23:40 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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