SSS has mentioned in the past to torque screws to Hand tight. If you need to torque a screw to make a gun shoot right chances are great you have a bedding problem. As far as torque sequence it don't matter. What ever makes you feel good.
I talked to one of the first custom action builders about glued in actions, and he told me the reason why they started gluing in actions was because the first actions they built in guns, people keep messing around with torqueing screws, and so forth and bent the tangs in the actions, and/or messing up the bedding causing further damage, so they started gluing them in to keep people from messing with the screws and causing further damage. That was the original purpose of a glue in action. Nowadays people glue in actions because it saves on weight, or because of beliefs that this is better because this is the way it was always done. Moral of the story, a glue in action has nothing on a properly bedded action with screws, whether it has excursions or pillars. In many ways a properly bedded action that is screwed is better, one it is easier to take apart, and second you don't have to worry about the action breaking loose in the middle of a match somewhere far away, rendering your expensive weekend a travesty.
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