Hallo Lancaster
Good to hear from you again, no I commenced cleaning the magazine , but this rifle has been cleaned a lot of years previously...it took a while to clean out and still some stains still stuck onto the surfaces...why do any one want to upgrade/re chamber a .458 Win Mag...???if you are not able to kill an elephant with this caliber( probably the caliber that killed the most dangerous game the past decades...????) then maybe a light machine gun is an option...I am contemplating shortening the stock to fit my physique ..maybe an inch or two..since the stock and pull of trigger is too long. This will be the shortest way to get it fit to shoot instead of building a new stock...I will not make any other changes to the stock...it needs to be original..