Originally Posted by Al_Nyhus
Best practice has always been contact on the back only with plenty of clearance on the sides, bottom and front.

The only exception to this is on actions where the action screw goes into the bottom of the lug....the bottom then needs to be tight to the pillar. I can't think of any competitive accuracy actions that do this.

Good shootin' smile -Al
Al, the South African Musgrave match rifle is a Mauser style, flat bottomed action with the front screw in tbe recoil lug. But those are fullbore match rifles, not BR rifles.
Cat

scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!