My smith does a skim coat of acra-glas on the butt stock to get a perfect fit to the action, and floats the fore-end form the receiver and barrel. He then glasses the barrel mortise in the fore-end. So tuned , my brother's 99C will keep three shots under 3/4" @ 100yds consistently.


"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Robert E. Howard