Crap, I must have hit "new post' instead of replying to the one I already posted.
I'd prefer not to bed it, but maybe a history of what happened will help. I've never inlet a barrel before, and those of you who have may see the problem right up front.
Out of the box and before the tang was inlet, the barrel would sit in the stock and the wedge would freely go in with no tension whatsoever. I inlet the tang and the barrel wedge would go in very, very hard. I used lipstick as an inletting dye and was getting impressions in the rear section of the barrel channel, so I carefully scraped where the impressions were and test-fit the wedge. When I had it so the wedge fit with the proper tightness, I noticed that there was a gap under the barrel in the forestock (near the endcap). If I held the stock sidewayd and squeezed the forestock and barrel together, the wedge fell out. After that, I epoxied a 1 1/4" shim to the forechannel, with the understanding that I could always scrape and sand it down (or completely out). That eliminated the up and down movement, but now there is slight side-to-side. If test fit a piece of shim stock to the right side of the barrel channel, and that will eliminate the side-to-side. Maybe I just didn't do a proper or complete inletting job in the first place.
DJL
I'd prefer not to bed it, but maybe a history of what happened will help. I've never inlet a barrel before, and those of you who have may see the problem right up front.
Out of the box and before the tang was inlet, the barrel would sit in the stock and the wedge would freely go in with no tension whatsoever. I inlet the tang and the barrel wedge would go in very, very hard. I used lipstick as an inletting dye and was getting impressions in the rear section of the barrel channel, so I carefully scraped where the impressions were and test-fit the wedge. When I had it so the wedge fit with the proper tightness, I noticed that there was a gap under the barrel in the forestock (near the endcap). If I held the stock sidewayd and squeezed the forestock and barrel together, the wedge fell out. After that, I epoxied a 1 1/4" shim to the forechannel, with the understanding that I could always scrape and sand it down (or completely out). That eliminated the up and down movement, but now there is slight side-to-side. If test fit a piece of shim stock to the right side of the barrel channel, and that will eliminate the side-to-side. Maybe I just didn't do a proper or complete inletting job in the first place.
DJL
