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Continued:

After you drill the action screw holes out, you can fine tune the overflow areas and relieve more spots so you will be guaranteed that you won't end up with secondary recoil lugs and unnecessary tight spots. These things also affect accuracy:

Here's an overflow area that I get rid of. I also used release agent on this area, knowing I'd be getting rid of it after I separated the stock from the action:


The trigger abutment gets dealt with like this. We don't want the trigger spring and adjustment screw hanging up anywhere and this would create a secondary recoil lug as Utah708 pointed out:


Looks like this when I'm done and only takes a few seconds:



After the stock and bedding are touched up and there are no secondary recoil lugs, I start on cleaning up the metal:


Rem oil, a rag and a few Q-tips work great for this process:


When you are done cleaning the metal parts, they look like this:
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