Dick Hosmer wrote on Aug 18^th, 2013 at 4:17pm:

Good Lord, no one should ever cut a full-length Krag these days, let alone one with an interesting provenance! Gunboat57 had the right idea. The world is full of relatively inexpensive bubbas waiting to be rescued and beautified.

I actually was not going to cut the barrel. I thought if I rebarreled to a shorter barrel and put a carbine stock on it and did not touch the receiver I could always reverse  the process.  After reading the  comments I guess I would just leave it alone.