As an explanation of the photos, I needed to make  a neat hole through the stock at just the right location was unsure how to do it with hand tools.
The set up started by toe clamping an aluminum block in the back, it was indicated in parallel to the table. Its purpose was to be something to line up the V-blocks that would support the Krag action. This was the key to lining up the action.
With the receiver on the V-blocks I indicated across the top to level it out then toe clamped it. The toe clamp did a little damage in the area near the ejector, if there ever would be a next time I would place an 1/8 metal shim under the clamp.
The top photo shows an aluminum stub in place of the barrel. I used this to find the center of where the new barrel would be, then using the edge finder shown found the end of the receiver which would be the starting point of the slot to be milled in the stock.
After setting zero in both X and Y, I screwed the blank out and hand tightened the original barrel, installed the stock and trigger guard and toe clamped the stock on top with moderate tightness.
The fore end of the stock was shimmed with card board in the regular mill vice to keep it from chattering while milling the stock.
This procedure could be used to put one neat hole in the stock for a conventional pillar, which really is needed n a US Krag if barrel bands are not used. Pictures of other Krags on this web site show a forward hold down screw so a pillar would not be needed on them.
The attached photos show the finished slot and the sight base that the pillar would support along with the old barrel.
If this seems like a strange thing to do to a Krag, the purpose of this rifle is for shooting wild hogs in low light. Again the info might be helpful to a Kragsmith or anyone else wanting to do a nice sporter.

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