Definately not checkered by Winchester. Winchester did offer checkered stocks and I have owned quite a few over the years. When they offered checkering it was a set, buttstock and forearm, and they also had a gripcap when checkered. To install a gripcap the area was filled flat for installation. Your stock still has the faint rounded grip of a standard stock. Also Winchester only checkered deluxe wood. Your is a nice quarter sawn plain stock. As someone else pointed out on one side the checkereing wasnt completed, another sigh it didnt leave the factory that way. Anyhow you should have a good shooter.
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