Quote Originally Posted by Randy A View Post
I was worried about the end result $$$ too but todays efforts produced a decent dark colored stock set with all hardware except for the upper wood and a barrel band. This rifle has a sling swivel right at the front of the magazine opening? I've seen them with a loop of sorts and thought the band midway up the barrel had a swivel and then a stacking swivel at the muzzle? The stock set I got has a swivel at the end not a stacking swivel. I assume the upper swivel goes on the mid-barrel band, stacking swivel at muzzle but whats up with the one at the front of the magazine, its two lugs threaded for a through bolt/screw?

Just be aware that these rifles are the last of the breed that were 'hand made' & 'hand fitted'.

'Fitting' new wood means exactly that - it will require some FITTING, they are not 'plug and play' so be prepared to do some minor surgery.

I spent hours and hours trying to fit a 'pre-used' forend to a barrelled action I had and just could not get it working, the bolt would not cock.
I removed the forend from another rifle and tried that on the Barrelled action and it worked OK, I then tried the original forend on the rifle from which I had just removed the forend to go onto the barrelled action, and, with a slight shaving it fitted and worked perfectly.

Every No1 MkIII is different.