Well, here are the pics of the rifle as it looks now. I decided to put some JB Weld into the recoil lug recess and also a bit at the forend (I applied some breakfree to the metal contact points). I thought that maybe the recoil lug was a tad loose in there which might have been the cause of the crack forming...
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