jc5-

I will heed your call to hesitation.
Also I will get it squared away in front of the camera tomorrow and get some more images of it to put up into this conversation.

Frankly, I am not married to thoughts of building this into a sporting rifle. With all the rage going around over the Lee-Speed sporters, my limited taste for bolt rifles has been wet for a good old one with good old wear all over it.
Perhaps the winds will blow one my way some time.

The action you see above here at the top of this thread, it had been under the thumb of someone with many more guns than I have, and the right time came along to whisk it away so I took the opportunity.
I just about half-figured that I'd end up with it only temporarily.
I am not against trading it off to someone better prepared to do it's proper justice.

Cheers
Tinker