I bed the pillars first making sure there is plenty of epoxy in the bottom of the hole. I do not cut the notch in the rear one until I am all done. If I cut it first I had trouble getting it to stay perpendicular to the action. I use alum. spacers I get from McMillien Carr, they are available in different sizes and the screw hole is exactly the right diam., cut some groves on them so the epoxy holds. I chuck them in my drill press to cut groves and get to the right length. Keep in mind that the rear pillar should touch the trigger guard and the action and the front one should touch the screw and the action, if there is any stock material in there it is not pillar bedded.
The
http://www.6mmbr.com/pillarbedding.html link is a good one.
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