My receiver is polished as good as my other pre-war rifles. The barrel "shack" with the numbers is polished better than my other 1942 but you can see it was done by hand and not on a lathe as there remains some marks which are not aligned with lathe polishing. My barrel is unfinished, just blued. The stock is not an original and probably are not original on any of the ex-snipers unless by sheer coincidence. It is an odd length, it's shorter. both the hand guard and the stock were shortened about an inch and a half, probably due to damage of some sort. The caps were put back on. The hand guard is a neat trick, unless you put it side by side with another, you'd never know it was shortened. End caps fit perfectly. But again, I don't think this stock oddity has anything to do with it being an ex-sniper, it was just the next available one in the stack when they were re-assembling them. The bolt also is not original so I lost the nice trigger assembly, etc. I've been experimenting with that off and on but I either seem to get it too light where it fails the drop test or no improvement. Polishing seems to help but I can't find the correct bends in the spring.