TM,
Thanks for the Trueflight link, however nothing is easy with this plan of mine.

They claim to make barrels with the ZKK profile, but Trueflight use 416R steel which is a stainless, so bluing is out of the question. Although I've never done it I think you could still silver solder the front sight, sling swivel etc to stainless, ie stainless to carbon steel.

Ultimately, I think I could live with a barrel with some sort of bake on black finish on this rifle.

The main problem is they don't do .35 cal but they do a .338cal. I suppose .338Fed is close enough to a .358Win.

I might still drop them an email and see what they say.

Does anyone know a good gunsmith in Australia who could handle this?

Regards

George