troops, a parody of " Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!", with a verse running:Īccording to contemporary, perhaps sensationalized accounts, the Krag's complex design was outclassed by the Spanish Mauser during the Spanish American War, and proved ill-suited for use in tropical locales such as Cuba and the Philippines. In this later war the rifle was referred to in a song popular with U.S. 30-03 cartridge), and found use in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Army's primary rifle from 1894 to 1903 (when it was replaced by the M1903 Springfield rifle with its ballistically similar. government over the choice - the Krag-Jørgensen design was chosen by the board of officers.Īpproximately 500,000 'Krags' were produced at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts from 1894 to 1904. Despite protests from domestic inventors and arms manufacturers - two designers, Russell and Livermore, even sued the U.S. The trials were held at Governors Island, New York.
A competition was held in 1892, comparing rifle designs from Lee, Krag-Jørgensen, Mannlicher, Mauser, Schmidt-Rubin, and about 40 other military and civilian designs. Army searched for a new rifle in the early 1890s to replace their old Springfield Model 1873 "trapdoor" single-shot rifles. Krag was replaced beginning in 1903 with the introduction of the M1903 Springfield rifle. All versions and variants were manufactured under license by the Springfield Armory between 18. The Springfield Model 1892-99 Krag-Jørgensen rifle is a Norwegian-design bolt action rifle that was adopted in 1892 as the standard United States Army military longarm, chambered in U.S. Close-up of the receiver, bolt assembly, and magazine door on a US M1898 Krag-Jørgensen RifleĢ,000 ft/s (610 m/s) (rifle) (220 grain bullet 1894-1898)
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