What Kp said. ^^^ My mentor insisted the inner seat was primary as is proper, but he also insisted just for pride of workmanship that the outer ring be snug enough when the barrel was up to near final torque, that the joint would not absorb oil. Necessary? Your call. But to do this you need to chuck thru the headstock spindle bore with a spider on the outboard end. Then having left the threaded a shank a whisker long, you can try and trim, try and trim, you don't need to go full torque when trying of course. Really cool project LRF, the 6.5 Dutch Mannlicher is a bucket list gun. I have the big sister, the 1904 Steyr in 8x57 J, a sweet rifle. Clips can be hard to find I imagine, mine takes 88 Commission clips without problems.
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