Thank you all for the replies, opinions and advice. Obviously I’m hoping for the great accuracy and low cost outcome, the smiths reviews were great and even claimed to charge less hours than spent. Guess we’ll see.

Sad thing is I’m probably just selling the gun and felt the new barrel was just a way to do the gun more justice and who wants to buy a gun with degraded accuracy?

No sights, finish needed and couldn’t care less about where the labeling ends up. I don’t think it was that straight on the original to be honest. I like good karma as much as fine guns.