Quote Originally Posted by olddav View Post
Just my .02, but there is not a lot of meat between the front and rear action screws. It’s almost as if the only reason it exist is to maintain the spacing between the rear baffle and the breach face. I currently have a 26” SS Varmit contour on an old flat back and it seems to be holding up just fine (pillar & glass bedded) but I can’t tell you if 30 inches is too much of a load on the action. Man that was a long sentence!
Why a 30” barrel?
Thanks. I do think that I am going to go the Varmint route unless someone convinces me that an MTU contour would be better.

As far as 30", I am wanting to be able to compete in some F-T/R matches and when I started researching 90% of people shooting in the matches with 308 have 30" or more barrels. But, I am not dead set on it. I think I probably will just go the 26" route like I had originally thought. Good to hear its holding up fine on yours.