Can anyone please tell me whether the stock front cross-bolt on the Winchester Model 70 Safari Express (.375 H & H for example) has a thread a lot narrower than on the stock rear cross-bolt? I have a New Haven post 64 CRF .338 Win Mag Supergrade (which has only one stock cross-bolt) which has developed a crack in the stock from the recoil lug through the front action screw hole to the magazine cut-out. My stock-maker can repair the crack with a super-fine glue but advises that he needs to put a second cross-bolt through the stock just behind the recoil lug (similar to what the Safari Express has). However, there doesn't seem to be enough wood in the stock to drill a hole the same diameter as the single cross-bolt which sits further back. So it would seem that a front cross-bolt would need to have a much smaller thread diameter. Can anybody please tell me whether the front and rear cross-bolts have the same diameter thread on the Safari Express or whether (as I suspect), the front cross-bolt is much narrower in diameter for the thread portion? Thank you.
