I bought one of these and wonder what you guys recommend doing to modify the gun. It shoots very well as is, the action is smooth as snot and it feeds perfectly.
However, I would like to give it more of a wood and blued look and have the barrel colored with blue matt and put a wood stock on it. Any ideas?
Do the McMillan brown stocks look very "woody"? (might be the way to go other than a wood stock).

Please post any pictures of your modificatons on your Classic Stainless.

ScottW,

If you are interested I have a Supergrade stock that is in very good condition and looks great. I've kindof been looking for a 375 barreled action to put it in myself, but I'm coming to realize that a DG hunt won't happen for a while.

If you're interested PM me and I can send you some pics.

wyattd:
PM sent!

Sell it to finance a wood/blue rifle if that is what you want.

Look under the Big Bore Forum, probably 2nd page or so. I posted pics of my blued gun I just got back.

David

If you were so inclined, I'd look at one of the Bell & Carlson brown synthetic stocks with the black spiderwebbing and have the metal gun kote'd in matte black. That should give you a more 'natural' looking weapon that is ready to be hunted HARD.

I'd leave that rifle AS-IS and make it my backup to whatever wood/blue darling that tickles your fancy. My PH in Tanzania carried the same Winchester you have, and didnt worry about scratches, rust or anything else. It looked as good as the day he bought it, and he uses his every day!! BN

I would get me one of the Win. M-70 FWT stock with the snobble forend, and with a little cut here and there and some glass I would install it on my 375...I did that with one I had and it was a dandy looking rifle, if fact is was so nice that someone else had to have it...IMO the SS really looks nice with walnut btw....but you can get SS blued if you prefer.

I have a twin to your gun.

What I did was

1. Install a mercury recoil reducer and glass-bed it.

2. Take it to Zim and shoot buffalo with it.

3. Repeat step 2.

4. Repeat step 3.

LRH270:
Can you post some pics of your safari with your SS?
Thanks,
ScottW

I bought one used; merc reducer already installed, pillar bedded. I'm taking it to Zim/RSA this July.

I would do what I did to my Winchester M70 SS Classic 338 Win Mag before I went for grizzly and Dall sheep in Alaska Sept 06. I would install a Williams extractor, and have the two piece bolt heli-arc welded. better safe than sorry.. Les

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Originally posted by ScottW:
I bought one of these and wonder what you guys recommend doing to modify the gun. It shoots very well as is, the action is smooth as snot and it feeds perfectly.
However, I would like to give it more of a wood and blued look and have the barrel colored with blue matt and put a wood stock on it. Any ideas?
Do the McMillan brown stocks look very "woody"? (might be the way to go other than a wood stock).

Please post any pictures of your modificatons on your Classic Stainless.

I had decent sights put on mine and bedded it but the best thing I did was cut the barrel back to 22" which transformed the balance and handling, it went to Zim for my first trip and acquitted itself well. Charlie.

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LRH270:
Can you post some pics of your safari with your SS?

I bought one that had been bedded into an HS Precision stock and had a barrel band front sling swivel added. The rifle was bedded too. Trigger was clean and crisp at 3 1/2 pounds.

Needed the front screw hole in the sight ramp cut a bit deeper on a mill and it was ready to go. It shoots 300 gr TSXs at 2600 fps to about 1 1/4" at 100 yards.

I don't think any more work needs to be done on the rifle. Good to go! Went to Tanzania as a backup for for my .416 Rigby.

(By the way, I got it for $600 in the Classified section here just after Winchester announced it was suspending manufacture in the US.)