So one more question to ask, do you bed a small pad in front of the lug (under the barrel tang)?
I was taught way back 40 years or so ago to bed the pad. The guy that taught me said, " it is way easier to bed the tang, shoot it and see if it likes it and grind it out if it does not, than to have to go back and put one in later if it needs it".
That makes perfect since to me, so I have always bedded one. I have had maybe 2 rifles in all the ones I have bedded that I had to grind it out on. Would the rest have shot better without the pad, I don't know, but they shot very well with the pad.


I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects

I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....