Thanks for the feedback. I need it on this.

I wasn't real sure about the front band either. It looks newly done but it is a real band and the patina inside was convincing. I don't know. It may be a welded ramrod channel but very well done. I'm thinking, though, since all of the other parts are authentic and from a real 1894 (not ramrod) that they probably would have had the front band to use as well.

Just don't know for sure. But the stock is new. It looks better after layers of soaked-in linseed oil. I love it!