Came home today to a box on my porch from the good people at NSS... opened it up to a bunch of shiny stuff and just as importantly my action wrench (thing is a BEAST) and barrel nut wrench.

Old barreled action is about the same length as the new barrel:


Old barrel came off of the action pretty easily; I put the action wrench on, slipped the barrel nut wrench on, hit it with a rubber mallet twice and it broke free and was able to hand-twist the action off of the old barrel.




Got all the main components together for a double-check fit test... making sure I didn't have to do any inletting on the barrel channel and that everything still lined up with new barrel on. One thing is for certain after mounting everything up... I don't see myself shooting this off-hand without spending some more time in the gym.







Now I have it all pulled back apart again... Wednesday construction will resume after I get some more goodies in.