Dave,

Welcome to the KCA.  I am sorry to hear of your loss of Mr. DeChrisopher even if it is a little belated.

I doubt there is any enthusiasm for someone building Krag receivers or rifles.  There is a group over on the CMP Forums who were building a line of forged M14 receivers to sell on the market.  They stopped production after a year or so.  Another gentleman associated with that group wants to retart the line under a different name but so far they are circling the airfield until demand returns.

Additionally, there too many dirty rotten #$^*(%#$$*ers stripping and parting out good rifles and carbines and leaving empty receivers.  Then there are us fools who buy those parts to rebuild or replace cut down barrels, M1903 front sights, missing bands, missing hand guards, and the list goes on and on to complete the cycle of distruction.

There are some of us unstable types who would like to see every Krag brought back to life and shoot Xs every time the trigger is pulled but then there is reality.

I was down in Fayetteville and infamous and notorious Krag parts seller had an expensive carbine stock for sale.  Big $$.  I told him I already owned six.  Then he perked up and said, "Want to sell them?!"  Umm no.

I would think it better to encourage the rebuilding of Krags like the CMP does with new criterion barrels for the M1s.

Sorry for being long.