Doco Overboard wrote on Apr 6^th, 2019 at 12:54am:

I envisioned the shoulder having a more pleasing transition to the muzzle for appearance only due to the omission of a handguard.

The old timers would craft a piece of steel and slide it over the barrel to ease the abrupt transition.  I've attached a picture of my sporter Krag that has this feature. 

The rifle isn't named, unfortunately, but someone took a lot of care crafting it.

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