Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors Anyone up for a look at my new project???

I really like the jeweling. It's a nice contrast to the cerakote, plus it's much slicker than just cerakoting the whole bolt. It may be hard to tell from pictures if there is any difference between the bansner and factory Alaskan stock. I have some old pictures of my 338 Alaskan that I can dig up:

Factory Alaskan stock:


All of these stocks are more "rounded" at the forends. No flat bottoms like the Ruger 77's.....


If you are asking about the factory Tupperware on the Classic sporter vs the bansner, I can get pics of those. Let me know which "factory" stock pictures you need..


Another thing about the bolt jeweling: I wanted my smith to hide the old crappy jeweling job. He did a great job. Look at what he had to work with:



Now look at what it looks like now:


Sometimes you have to go with your gut and sometimes you have to deal with what's given to you..