Commercial action all day, and since it’s Sunday, twice, unless you can find one with the hard stuff already done on someone else’s dime that you can finish up your way.
At current prices for gunsmithing, you’ll save a bundle, unless you absolutely have to have one with a thumb cut.
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've done full builds on Spandau, 1909's, VZ-24's & still have half a dozen actions that will likely never get built into rifles as the cost today is just too high & I don't have the ambition to do the (significant) amount of work required to get them done.
You can buy a pretty damn nice rifle today that will shoot well for less than the cost of doing a really good '98 up right & that's just the metalwork & barrel.
MM
