snowgetter1 - Thanks for the response. I guess my paid membership had lapsed, so I just re-upped. Thank you for pointing that out. Regarding your build, that's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. When you say he relieved the forearm area, are you saying the previous owner took more material out of the barrel channel? From the looks of it, that stock was meant for a varmint barrel in the first place, so I would be hard pressed to think it was required?

tobnpr - Thanks for the reply! I don't have any doubts on if I can build a short action cartridge off a long action. I've already got a 260 bench gun built off a long action as is, I'm more concerned about the look/fit of a magnum barrel in a stock designed for a varmint barrel; specifically how it would look on a duramaxx stock.

I know there are multiple folks out there running shaw magnum contour barrels, just can't find ANY pictures of them.