Creeping along:  Next steps are to final shape stock tip, match wood color, and to 'patina' barrel-band and spring.

This 'cut-down' stock is an inch shorter than a true model 1896 Krag carbine stock.
A regular Krag 'band-spring' would have compromised the stock tip.

I improvised a shorter replacement spring from an Argentine Mauser spring, that I had in my junk box.

Besides, everything works better with a Mauser part on it!

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