Jason60chev wrote on Jan 1^st, 2019 at 9:21am:

I received enough criticism from the M1 Garand crowd "Purists" when I had a BM59 built, about "destroying" a piece of history.

It's not that most of us are purists (Okay, maybe there are a few that are) but most of us are shall we say semi-purists.  The Garand guys have their flavor of the disease and we have ours.  One can not just run out and just get parts anywhere for a Krag.  They have to be stripped off an existing gun.  I think most guys here will agree restaint and caution for the future krag owners is the word of day.  I have bubba'd Krags that I have taken out of circulation and would have no problem turning a muzzle.  I presumed your stock had been cut back a bit when they lopped off the front of your barrel.  So if your stock is intact please do not cut on it.  There are too many "carbines" from the early 20th century floating around.

Find the crappiest bayonet you can get for twenty bucks and open the hole up.  But if you could, though, stamp some place on it that it was modified or changed as a warning to future purists and the unsuspecting.  However, I think Mr. Hosmer has the correct solution.

Those Garand guys don't have a leg to stand on. >:(  You cannot swing a dead cat without hitting some site that sells trigger guards and assemblies.  They are common.  On the other hand no one is making new op rods yet some dweebs insist on cutting them  short.  I'll shut up and color when someone starts making op rods.

I know your pain about being overseas.  Did that for years on RAID and VOSS programs.

Soooooooo.  When do we get to shoot that BM-59?