Thank you wijib. The RLO is so easy to work with. And Jim has excellent instructions how to use it right there on his website. His maroon synthetic finishing pads make it extra easy imo.
I wonder if they would make the forearm checkering longer if asked to do so? Have you talked to them yet?
I didn't think to ask about it, but now that you point it out it probably would look better with a longer checkering section. I've ordered it now though. With the select walnut, rosewood grip cap and shipping it came to $441.
I ordered my UK stock with no checkering or that ridiculous cheap (to me anyway) looking stippling , just plane wood , love the look and feel shooting my HW97
I thought about going that route as well. I don’t really think that checkering has any practical purpose on a rifle and it definitely makes it harder to refinish and clean and hides the grain of the wood. Ultimately though I just think that it looks good and I really like to shoot and handle beautiful guns.
