Tentman,
I very much like that tulip in front of the receiver on Steven's rifle. I like pretty much everything about that rifle, and hence I stole many ideas from it and others in his book in making this one (and for a 95 Marlin I'm building too).
(Middle rifle)
If you want to use that Highwall barrel on a lowwall project, you can, but it will have a few issues you need to consider. Almost all Highwalls are "large shank". So, if you wish to use it on a low wall you will need to find a thick-tang lowwall action which will accept the large shank or you will have to recut it for "small shank" threads. Thick and thin-tang Lowwalls differ in a number of other ways as well. If you look closely at the photos above, you will see that my Lowwall action is paneled or what I call scalloped and Steven's thin-tang receiver is flat-sided. The latter are far more common. They take different wood too. The thick-tang receiver will take Highwall wood, if you use a pre-shaped blank. Steven's Lowwall is thinner in the wrist and a stock cut for that receive will be too small for a Highwall or thick-tang Lowwall.
A #3 makes a mighty heavy .22 barrel in my opinion. Mine is a #2 octagon, 28" long. It is, however, much lighter than a standard #2 because it was bored out at 0.6" and then fitted with a turned down Lilja barrel that is 11" shorter than the original barrel. Because it was muzzle light, it was eventually fitted with an underrib for better balance (second picture).
Getting a barrel profiled these days is pretty darn hard. A friend of mine had someone (I don't know who) do one and it came back off-center, badly. But I would try calling CPA. I think they might be doing this, and I would trust them to get it right.
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