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Thanks for the input!

It is a fairly heavy contour barrel and is bedded properly by a competent 'smith. Kinda purty to boot!



I think my plan at the moment is to shoot it and hunt it local as-is for a year or so and see if I get much POI shifting. This gun is the backup to a backup to a backup so not really critical for any immediate hunting trips out of state.

If I trim the tape close to the stockline nobody will ever notice it.



In the meantime, if I pick up a decent synthetic that I like (wouldn't mind having one should this rifle find itself heading to Alaska in the next few years) I may just see how it shoots in a stiff synthetic fully floated with lots of clearance. If that works, it will be time to remove some wood and seal the barrel channel on the wood stock.