I bought a nice grade 2 BL22 Browning lever action a couple of years ago. The previous owner had put a lot of safe dings in the stock and forearm. Just recently I made the decision to fix it. I couldn't stand it any longer. I found a new rear stock on ebay in perfect condition and put it on the rifle. But I still had a dinged up and mismatched forearm. I found a random forearm without checkering in good condition, also from ebay. I sanded the finish off, but soon discovered matching wasn't going to be easy. Another problem surfaced. In order to remove the forearm and replace you have to disassemble the rifle. Reassembly requires dealing with the tiny ejector spring and the ejector. What a PIA that is. Eight tries and at least an hour later I got it together. It all worked out in the end and the match was pretty good considering I was dealing with two random pieces. I won't go into the refinish process unless someone wants the details. No dings now!!