Originally Posted by jetjockey
I’m seriously thinking about having Kevin Weaver build my Kimber 300wsm into a full blown custom for my plains game trip to Zambia in 2023. I visited Jim Bisio at Heritage Walnut this morning and looked over several of his blanks, and Kevin suggested a Lilja barrel for the re-barrel. Any reason not to build a full blown custom on my Kimber? Which blank do you guys prefer?


Have owned 3 stainless Lilja's. Two are great, one is crap.

The bad one shoots patterns. My smith sent it back and they admitted it wasn't lapped. The good ones are extremely good, but the dud still doesn't perform to my satisfaction.


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