Originally Posted by K22
This is interesting. Can you tell us more about this? Synthetic or wood stock?
It is going into a Boyd's pro varmint, which is a laminated wood painted black stock.
http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/FindA...&Action=1G&Shape=1G&Finish=2
I will paint over the black paint with Brownells Aluma hyde II "dessert tan" color:
http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-t...rosol-paints/aluma-hyde-ii-prod1117.aspx
I already have the stock inletted for the barreled action for a more conventional front pillar [ 0.625" diameter, 0.603" length, 0.062" wall tube] with clearance with six degrees of freedom between stock and barrelled action:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom
Today I must cut more off the front pillar / recoil lug and more from the stock to make them fit together before glassing the pillars pre compressed into the stock with devcon steel putty.

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