Sounds like another conundrum encountered when we want to make a Mauser like a M70....we run into these cost/benefit predicaments...having BTDT,this is the reason I look longingly at Mausers these days,put them down,and buy a M70 instead.Unless of course someone else has already spent the chedda in the right areas and I'm buying a properly assembled rifle, used.
But the OP is into this already,and a reasonable,responsible person would worry about the cost and leave it "as is".....but rifle nutz are not reasonable people
and Woodsie will not rest until the rifle is exactly as he likes it
I would worry about the mechanics before the aesthetic stuff;get the Alaskan trigger and the 3 position safety.....then play with the stock later is how I would roll.
As Utah alludes to, a "perfect" 375H&H never comes inexpensively.A sophisticated guy like Woodsie will not be happy until it fits his version of "perfect".
