Thread: What the heck would have caused this

Originally Posted by dfmaisey

Grinding a little off the end of the front action screw will help to give more adequate clearance. Actually, this sort of thing is one of the reasons for glass/pillar bedding wooden or laminated stocks, as over time (or from over-tightening) the wood fibres can compress, which then allows the screws to come through further than they did previously. Action screws contacting the bolt lugs can cause accuracy problems as well, and rear screws protruding through too far can catch on the cocking piece of the bolt. Seen it many times before.

Thanks for that Dean out of curiosity how much do you charge to pillar bed a stock as I am thinking about getting this done when I am a bit more flush with the funds as I do like the idea of having something a bit more solid for the action to pull up against than having it sit on straight plastic I would ask a freind of our family from over there to do it but he isn't gunsmithing anymore going by the last time I talked to him a couple of years ago.