Originally Posted by
Big Uncle
That sounds like a reasonable approach. If the stock (and you) are still in good shape after that many rounds you should have a winner. Please post a picture of your rifle when you get it nailed together.
Seemed reasonable to me too, given the information I have and the limited logical reasoning capacity I possess - but that doesn't mean it's the "right answer"!!
Hopefully it doesn't land me in hot water with a very expensive stock playing the role of useless paperweight, ruining a very expensive hunting trip. Stuff happens, and usually at the least opportune times, so I could find myself in a position where I built the rifle out of titanium tempered with dragon tears, but then drop it off of the side and the safari jeep drives over the top of it and bends the barrel... Just gotta mitigate as much risk as I can.
It'll probably be spring before I start tearing into these again - I'm sending them both out together, and my wife wants to use her 7mm for deer and coyotes this winter, which is nice, because that gives me time to save up for the scopes and practice my checkering.