1874sharpshooter, if that texturing is on the cheek weld side I would highly recommend you sand it down and make sure there is no roughness. A hard recoil with you tight into your weld can result in hamburger face. I had the very unfortunate chance to experience that for myself and looked like I got slapped in the face with a cheese grater. Yours does look to be a bit smoother than mine was and mine was on a very hard and fast recoiling .300 Winchester magnum but a heads up to the possibility seems to be in order.