Nice! I would swap with a guy in Iowa, the trigger bar. You don't need no stinking CDST, when simple single trigger is so much simpler!

Seriously, I would not chase the barrel much unless you really like the caliber and that particular chamber and throat. I'd bend the tang (with super care) and make it a pistol grip. I'd put whatever caliber I happened to "need" into the barrel. Then I would restock with some high-contrast English walnut and case color the action.

Then I would kill something with it. Or shoot a match or three.

But that's just me.
Brent


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