Mickey lived about an hour from here and I visited him a couple of times-- he was a gentleman. He did some bedding work for me back before I started building my own guns and, candidly, it wasn't his best work-- this was near the end of his life and I'll blame his macular disease. I'm sure his earlier rifles were great.

As for chambering, I use the method described by William Hambly-Clark in his excellent book, Centerfire Rifle Accuracy. It involves holding the breech end in the 4-jaw by a set of gimbals, allowing the bore to be indicated over the length of the chamber. Robert Gradous uses a similar method, but with a different gimbal design. I'm not going to argue with anyone on whether it is the "best" method but my results with it have been excellent in terms of accuracy.

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