I have a 7mm-08 Savage 11 FCNS bought used at a great price with a pitted barrel. I want to modify it and make it "my own". I will be buying another 7-08 in a Model 70 Extreme Weather.

I figure I can replace the accustock with a Boyd's prairie hunter in nutmeg with checkering and replace the barrel with a pacnor match grade stainless, then get all the metal parts coated by Black Ice and it would be a Weather resistant rifle with some heft to it. I think this would be a good opportunity to have a medium bore 338 Federal.

Besides changing the recoil lug to an aftermarket (it is an accustock so has a smaller lug), and the barrel swap, anything else I need to worry about? Magazine and cartridge length no problem with the short action for this chambering in this rifle? Any thoughts on the cartridge? I like to think this might be a rifle that accompanies on a great variety of hunts and builds some memories.