I understand that when putting a rifle back together, the mainforearm bolt should be torqued to a specific weight. Any ideas? I read on one of the forums that it was 35 inch lbs from one guy and 35 ft. lbs from another. I'm thinking 35 inch lbs?

35 ft-lbs will probably break the screws off if it were possible to make them that tight.

35 inch lbs sounds high to me also, for some reason 20 inch-lbs comes to mind but I'm no expert andthere are others here who know the right numbers.

I follow the rule of 35 inch pounds on the front where the recoil lug is. And on the back, just snug. I got this from a Remington custom smith year ago. But now can't find anyone to verify that. some like to snug down to up to 50inch pounds. You just need to be careful with teh back one. You don't want to torque your action.

65 inch pounds is the "standard" torque, for both the front and rear action screws, on rifles with the H-S Precision type stocksising the aluminum bedding blocks. This also includes the Remington VS and Sendero stocks. Guns with conventional wood stocks may shoot better with less torque overall, or even with less torque only on the rear screw. I generally use65 inch pounds F/R on all rifles with free floated barrels.

If you have a 700 dont do like I have and tighten the one in front of the trigger guard too much and strip the head trying to remove it [:@]Havent fixed it yet but eventually its gonna have to be removed.[X(]