Need a couple opinions from you pros.

[Crow#21957]

I will post two pics below. I have a screw in the end of the tang and wanted to know should I put a tang screw up close to the front of tang where my pencil is pointing and down through trigger plate.Second the lock panels on this gun is what I'm after in a smr correct?

 

[reddogge]

I always have two bolts going from the tang to the trigger plate. Those lock panels look good to me. I tend to slightly elongate the back and front, only slightly.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Go with two bolts drilled and tapped into the trigger plate. Here's what you're looking for for lock panels. There is no groove filed around the back of the panel. The middle picture is school specific for north carolina Rowan county guns with the hint of grooving at the rear of the panel.
Don't use germanic locks on Appalachia guns. They used english locks with round tails. The panels in that case are usually rounded in the rear and have some grooving in the rear.

 

[Crow#21957]

Thankyou both. I have been doing the lock panels way wrong. I will see how I can do this time.

 

[Kevin Houlihan]

Follow Comfortably Numb's advice and also look up Smart Dog's methods for forming lock panels. Rarely if ever are there grooves filed around lock panels except in specific schools. The panels should be 1/8"ish top and bottom with the front and rear a little wider. The area between the tang and the top of the lock panels should be flat or in some instances a little concave. Looking from the side, the top of the lock panel shouldn't go above the corner for the barrel side flat assuming you allowed for that when you positioned your lock bolts.