my bubba buddy did all the work. Blue Wonder steel and painted TG. The stock was blotchy with dirt and stained.

phone pic.

Make sure you have the recalled firing pin replaced before you shoot it; it is truly a design/manufacturing defect that can kill you.

If I recall correctly, you cannot remove the barreled action from the stock unless the breach block is locked back. My father was presented with a Win 100 where the gas piston had seized in its tube after the rifle had not been used for a while (obviously not cleaned and lubed after use) and he had a major job getting it out of the stock to fix. He did manage after several others had failed.

You can't lock the bolt back without having the magazine in, and then it won't come out either. You need to just hold it back with the right hand on the op lever and push the barrel up and out with the left hand. Easy once you've done it.

Back in "skewl" about 42 years ago, we made up a little sort of T shaped contraption out of plywood, with rounded ends, to insert up through the magazine well and hold the bolt back while we removed the metal from the stock. I recall there was a drawing in an old Winchester service manual that we copied.