Yup, bands on the mid and heavy bore barrels. I was/am VERY tempted to put sights and bands on all of the barrels, and I still might, but I know that I won't ever shoot open sights for the 7mm mag or 300wm, so I'll probably put that money to fluting instead of sights and bands. A #5 contour shilen is anything but a light piece of steel, so if I can cut down a half pound or so, that'll be nice for carrying them on the home side when the extra weight isn't necessary, or even wanted.

The first trip with THESE rifles is looking right now like Alaskan brown and caribou in 2016, if I can get them spun together in time, and we're working on Argentinian buffalo with some guys I work with in 2016 as well (a hunt I've done before, and am lucky to have an opportunity to go back).

The idea for these two is to be a "husband and wife" pair of rifles, hers in the lighter cartridges of the pairs, mine in the heavier. The downside is that we both have to compromise on stock fit such that we can share rifles, but the up side is that we can mix and match barrels to cover our bases wherever we might go. And of course, have access to a usable set of cartridges that are suitable for our "home hunting" which is most commonly whitetail deer and every few years another elk trip.

My wife and I have put a few memories on a lot of rifles over the 6yrs we've been hunting together, now we're looking to build a pair of rifles that we can put a lot of memories on over the next 25+yrs of hunting together...