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Thanks for the replies again fellas!
I should have clarified my initial line of questioning to include if the receiver was either skim bedded or pillar bedded properly.
The fulcrum effect is something I had wondered but had no first hand experience.
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As described above, you risk the fulcrum effect. When I bed ahead of the lug by about 1 1/2", I also bed the receiver all the way back to the tang, even if it is just a skim coat. If you do it right this should eliminate the fulcrum effect and make the receiver/barrel interface with the stock as solid as it is going to be. Even better is to do this and also install pillars.
Bob This! The receiver should fit flat - with no more than 1/2 turn of the screws from coming snug to fully tight. a quarter turn is even better. Or I guess invest in a torque wrench and find out just what kind of bending it likes or doesn't.... 
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I have a 600 mohawk and the barrel is free floated, but the tang makes very little bedding contact with the stock, If I bed in front of the recoil lug would that help?
I have thought about pillar bedding it and then it would be solid from the recoil lug to the tang but wanted to try this as a quick fix first
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Personally, I would flat-bed everything behind the recoil lug. at least. Most of mine are bedded 1.5-2 inches forward of the recoil lug as well, with a bit of relief on the front side ( and usually sides) of the recoil lug., free-floated the rest of the way. One persnickity 700 wanted just a little bit of fore-end tip pressure. The M98 with heavy barrel was initially full length bedded and shoots 3 shot inch groups at 300 yards. I have no idea what it would do otherwise.... and I'm not looking! Yeah, I'm a big help....
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Simple for me. Always start by bedding entire receiver and under chamber for all guns. About 90% of maybe 30 guns have shot. A couple or three that didn't shoot, got the barrel bedded neutral all the way. All but one shot. That one I kept adding pressure using pieces of business cards. When It decided to shoot with pressure, it got bedded that way. Always started bedded under chamber. Usually use 50 in/lbs torque on action screws.
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