Quote Originally Posted by 70oldsracer View Post
The notch I made for the pin is only .040" deep and .187" wide, there is still plenty of mating surface for the recoil lug. I will also bed the recoil lug, so I think it will be just fine.
After I finished everything, I realized that the barreled action wasn't sitting in the stock correctly. Even after torquing it down, I couldn't get the action to sit on the front and rear tabs on the bottom of the aluminum bed. It was getting wedged on the sides. I had to take lay out die and put it on both sides of the aluminum bed. Then I took a piece of pipe that was the same diameter as the action and wrapped it with sandpaper and continued to go up and down the rail until the action touched the side rails uniformly and was able to be pulled down and touch the front and rear tabs while tightening the action screws. Now I will bed the recoil lug and finally be done with it. IMO, not worth all the work.