I think you will have a nice shooting rifle when you are done with your gun smithing for this poor cut-down Krag. It will have no collector value as a cut down sporterixed rifle but you should, hopefully, get lots of fun shooting it!

Maybe, if you get hooked on the 30-40 platform and enjoy your Krag, you will catch the fever and look for and invest in a military correct Krag that will be the envy of all of your shooting buddies.

I would actually have the muzzle re-crowned to look more like a real Springfield Armory crown. That crown job makes me shiver.

Hopefully the bore will turn out to be nice like promised. Good luck!