I've a couple of questions for you,

Is your action bedded? my opinion is to get another more solid stock but I don't know your intents BUT I have gotten a factory stock to shoot well with a little work.

The magic torque value is really going to depend on your rifle as there is a close range but nothing that is going to work for everyone.... it sure would be easy though if it were!

I would highly suggest you get a torque wrench, I have one of the FAT wrenches and honestly I use the hell out of that thing! scopes, bases, action screws, and all sorts of little things around the house.

The trigger most of the time I end up changing them out but for what it's worth and that's probably not much if I recall the ones I've played with were about 1 1/2-2 turns from bottomed out. I like my triggers right at 2# on my field rifles and 14-16oz on the bench Pdog rifles but again I'm not sure what your grand plan is.

What is the end result your looking to find? ok there's enough questions for the time :) Later,

Kirk