BIG News from the CMP!!! M1903’s, M1917’s and KRAG JORGENSENs!

The civilian marksmanship program recently released some big news, specifically for military surplus collectors. If you guys have been wanting a M1903 or M1917 or even a crag Jorgensen a.k.a. Springfield 1892-99, then this might be your last opportunity to get one from the CMP. they have announced that you can get up to 6 annually. So it seems like they’re trying to liquidate their bold action military surplus?

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[@shawnoandrew]

Paid 250 for my 1898 Krag years ago. ID like to find a decent full stock.

[@jamesvatter5729]

They made that change after I finally got my Krag. Go figure! Now, if they only had some carbines.

[@Lavite200]

Thanks for the information! I shot at a lot of competitions at CMP South. I will be looking for those Krags.

[@vocalcoyote9375]

Bro, I thought I was done with the CMP a couple years ago when I mail ordered a couple 6-digit Garands to "finally round out my collection" and then they drop this bombshell news to my email. Looks like they're about to get another 1700$ from me for a 1903 FG and one of those 7.62 NATO MOD0 Garands lol!🤣 I'm mailing my order form out tomorrow. Thanks for spreading the info! Keep up the good work!

[@jamesbr8704]

I was just at Camp Perry (CMP North) over the weekend. Came home with a nice 1903a3.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Nice! I’ve heard they have a good amount of Krags up there too

[@jamesbr8704]

@BattlefieldCurator I didn't see your video until after I came home. I would have snatched one of those up too! I guess I'll have to order one

[@montanamountainmen6104]

I bought my 1898 Krag in 1994. Its was around $260 . If I only knew then I'd have bought all 4 of them on the rack.

[@russwoodward8251]

Great news. Thanks Dan.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

You’re welcome 😁🍻

[@georgewhitworth9742]

What an awesome birthday surprise! ...not that I still know how to order from the CMP, or likely afford it, but a welcome surprise nonetheless!

[@chinook366]

Several years ago I attended the Advanced maintenance course (M1) and while there i learned about the inner workings of the CMP and rifle sales. ALL the rifles belong to the Army in some way, every month a large palletized crate from Anniston Army Depot (US Army historical clearing house) would be brought to the CMP warehouse where their expert would inspect and grade every single rifle or pistol in it and they would sell them or auction them after any repairs if needed. There are treasures brought in that are awesome and they are passed on,, so these rifles must have been found there and brought over.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Incredible, I thought about doing that course with some friends… could never really coordinate it though. Thanks for the information 😁🍻

[@dalerash6285]

My friend’s dad had a 30-40 Krag for his deer rifle back in the 1950s, 60s, he killed several deer with it, and my friend had a 351 Winchester, another old police rifle from the early 1900s, it was his deer rifle, and I borrowed it and killed one deer with it also.

[@glengrandstaff9695]

I`ll have one of those Krags !

[@behindenemylines3361]

Awesome-thank you!

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Cheers 😁🍻

[@emoryzakin2576]

Yo congrats on 100k btw!

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Thanks 🍻😁

[@richardcush9161]

Just mail mine in time before the news broke out lol. Hope i get a great 1903

[@Richsmg]

Please do a video on where did all these Krags come from? Same for the 1917s and 1903s. CMP already did an origin story on the Garand. But I’d love to hear your perspective.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

I might be able to find out more info on them. As far as I know they get them from Veterans organizations but there could be other sources.

[@l4c390]

@@BattlefieldCurator I wouldn't be surprised if the Army just found that they had these stored in some depot and just forgot about them over the years. LIke, forgot about them for 100 years.

[@hquiller]

Bummer. They stopped shipping to PR. At least I got two Garands.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Why is there any supply at all? They must be in the Warehouse from ,"Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

[@garyhosier4765]

CMP probably low on money. I just got a Garand in expert grade. Three weeks. Shoots great. I’m still learning the firearm. I figured if I’m getting a new stock anyway and a hodge pudge of parts I might as well have a new barrel. Wood on new stock is beautiful. Finish of the wood was probably like an original. Kinda not completely finished. I blocked the stock down with 80grit to remove highs and lows and finished with 600-800. No stain just Tru Oil. Little shiny but beautiful. I’m going to hunt deer with it this season!

[@hobertlee7598]

I HAD ONE

[@herrprepper2070]

I bought a Remington Grand M1 at a gunshow. I took elk at 800 yards with it… offhand.

[@NX4.6GT315]

I took down a buffalo at 891yds with a Red Ryder..... Off hand.

[@mikekindig9558]

Is buying an expert grade M1 garand worth it from the cmp?

[@bobbog7083]

Hopefully they have some Krag Carbines

[@BattlefieldCurator]

That would be sweet!

[@gustini2146]

Straight to the CMP auction

[@stevenjones1171]

I paid $60.00 for my 30/40 Krag.

[@calebking6856]

Looking to get my first 1903. Was looking at getting a field grade in the $800 range from the CMP. Is that fair in terms of price? I know typically CMP sells cheaper than anywhere else by quite a bit

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Imo my friend Grant got a nice one for around that earlier this year. It’s in this video - CMP Rifles From the South Store kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKWYXnlrgr-Vp8U

[@calebking6856]

@@BattlefieldCurator I’m just wondering if it’s worth rushing to or if it’s easy to find a better deal elsewhere. I just don’t want to overpay for something. I got an m1 from there and I know I got a great deal but I didn’t know if there 1903’s were good deals or not really

[@OfficerQuaalude]

I want to buy one of these but I'm worried about the condition of the rifles - I've heard speculation also that the '03s are all 1930s or later production.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

The 03s will be labeled as service grade, field grade or rack grade. I’ve seen some nice ones and some with “character” but nothing I’ve seen at the CMP looks as if it were stored in open air warehouses in the middle of Africa with livestock peeing on them. The receiver dates and barrel dates will vary, last time I went there I got a M1903 with a WW1 era receiver and a WW2 barrel. Some have WW1 style straight stocks and humpback handguards.

[@crazyredneckgame2059]

I was hoping for a new remake of these rifles.

[@Zacharykconrad]

North store won’t see any of them

[@furmanmackey5479]

I would love to have any of those rifles. By the way how many of my fellow Old Goobers out there ever noticed that SGT. Shultz of "Hogans Heros" was armed with a Krag Jorgensen as were a number of other Nazi soldiers seen primarily in the background and not all of them were Stalag 13 personnel.

[@ibfubar]

Yeah, Shultz carried that Krag in several episodes.

[@ronaldrobertson2332]

That would be typical of the home guard to arm POW camps with old rifles like that. I've seen Mosin Nagants being issued to German troops and home guard.

[@furmanmackey5479]

@@ronaldrobertson2332 All very true! I've seen some very grainy video of what I think were, possibly, early WWI Mosin Nagants in use with clearly elderly and very young Germans in "Volke" units by late WWII. Despite freeze framing and all but placing my nose on the screen I still can't confirm, to my satisfaction at least, what generation of Mosin Nagant or possibly even very early Mausers I'm seeing. It's much easier to spot the rather crude Mausers in propaganda films from late 1944-1945.

[@larryjacobsen4079]

A Hollywood props dept. probably had a bunch of Krags, good enough for a sitcom. "Combat" was probably using all of the available Mausers.

[@furmanmackey5479]

@@larryjacobsen4079 I have a strong feeling you are correct on both counts.

[@danshaffer2890]

I'm confused... ever since your last vid on CMP guns, their site's been saying that 1903's aren't available, now comes this vid. Are they for some reason making them only available in stores?

[@grantpowers6339]

No you have to go to the site now but they also are selling them in stores

[@captianbadtouch5767]

Dawg, I literally just finished restoring one

[@BattlefieldCurator]

At least you were able to save history when no one else was probably going to do it

[@91pdogJ]

Pretty sure I read on their website that they are not excepting online orders for 1903 Springfields. Has anyone read the same thing?

[@richardcush9161]

They have a very limited number of 1903 for mail order. Probably too late now 😂.

[@grantpowers6339]

I'm pretty sure you are looking at the big text and it says Krag Jorgensen are not for sale at this moment

[@chrischiampo7647]

😀👍🏼😎👍🏼

[@callhoonrepublican]

I really want an m-1917.. dam. I really dont need to drop an extra grand on one though .

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Yep… that’s the predicament

[@TheSulross]

So what about all those 1873 Springfields?

[@BattlefieldCurator]

I would guess that most if not all of those made it to the US surplus market many decades ago via other distributors.

[@user-bs1if7ug1i]

CMP south store?

[@tlwisner]

CMP Krag in 2020 was $1250

[@BattlefieldCurator]

If i recall, that 1250 was on the high end… I think the lowest they had them was 1050-1150

[@tlwisner]

@@BattlefieldCurator They had one when I was there so there was that. 🙂 I was happy to get it and it is a beauty.

[@bradenmartin1382]

Shhh... don't tell everyone 🙃

[@BattlefieldCurator]

lol

[@gregb6469]

I wouldn't mind getting a Krag, but $1000 is about $700 more than I have to spend. :(

[@theblindsniper9130]

Im curious, off topic. How did you get RTI to allow you to film with them? They're like 20 minutes up the road from me and appear like hermits, uninterested in my reaching out to them.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Message me on FB or Instagram

[@user-gs1ji7dj3n]

with those numbers they'll disappear in no time at all.

[@imperialhonorguard1483]

How am I supposed to get guns from the CMP if I live in Oregon?

[@donwyoming1936]

Go to their site. They explain it all.

[@charlesmaxim6928]

ROADTRIP

[@leoseabright]

You can't. Just forget it.

[@jarodcrazyindian]

Hidey, Dan.

[@BattlefieldCurator]

😎🍻

[@lpgtr8r1]

Did you green screen this video?

[@BattlefieldCurator]

No, I don’t even own a green screen

[@handyearly3653]

Rumor M4’s

[@BattlefieldCurator]

😳

[@donwyoming1936]

Glad I stocked up from the CMP 20 years ago. Garands, Carbines, M1917s, M1903s, and M1903A3s. The CMP has been trying to get out of the gun business for decades. It's a distraction from their main goal, marksmanship

[@Shallnotbeinfringed2A]

Right. But the gun sales are what brings in the $$$.

[@yeedbottomtext7563]

Eh, something tells me they love the bread that’s coming in

[@edr.3229]

Surplus is way over priced. If people stop buying them then the prices will drop.

[@laramiecrowder347]

They do not have anything

[@BattlefieldCurator]

Yes they do, check the CMP Forums for inventory status.

[@AlaskaHaikuWarrior]

Too bad it will require soul selling and complicated loopy loops with the cmp. Buying milsurps just ain't simple as it used to be.

[@GooglePixelGoogle]

Agreed, I don't want to have to join a club, and fill out a ton of paprework just to get a rifle. They should just sell them to the tax payers like a normal firearms transaction. Pay on the website, then ship to an FFL. Heck I live 30min from the Anniston CMP, stopped in once and was told that I could not purchase a rifle there, I had to go online and jump through the hoops.

[@yeedbottomtext7563]

I’m glad people think it’s this complicated. More rifles for me. Literally all you need is a CCW and pay $20 to join the GCA

[@gustini2146]

More for us

[@hakimcameldriver]

Considerong all these guns are only worth $100 or less in the real world..

[@richardcush9161]

Did you crawl from under a rock? I wish they were less money but everywhere you look they are close to 1000 except you get a sporter.

[@usnchief1339]

What's the real world to you?

[@jonlynn1864]

The sight and program baffles me......can anybody post a url for "How to" or "CMP for Dummies" ?

[@1IlIlII]

If you google it, there’s several videos and forum posts that walk you through it. Hell the order form walks you through it.

[@gustini2146]

Like how to buy? It’s been done to death. It’s really a straightforward process

[@grantpowers6339]

This should tell you kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3LMk3quetqrjaMsi=vYRm0304qV7ILspU

[@leoseabright]

No. It's impossible. Whatever you do, do NOT go to their web site and follow their directions.