Probably different people representing E.R. Shaw who just weren't on the same sheet of music or something has changed since I asked. I still have the emails from the guy at Shaw who told me that buying just a barreled action wasn't an option. He also couldn't tell me how much each stock option would cost, so I couldn't pick the cheapest option.

The laminated stocks are Boyd's JRS, not my favorite laminated stock, but I have no idea whose synthetic stocks they use.

Jeff