I recently completed a rebarrel on an FN 98 I had to .264 WM. I went with a 25.5 "8 Twist SS Barrel. I went back and forth with whether to coat the barre/barreled action and decided to fug it and go shooting! Looks similar to yours only without such nice checkering! One thing about coating, it won't make it shoot any better, its purely and aesthetics thing!
