Quote Originally Posted by celltech View Post
Just bed the front lug if you are worried...$1 worth of JB Weld to make a perfect fit.
While you may use the bedding compound to compensate for an imperfect bearing surface of the lug on the stock that isn't all that is at play with a warped lug. You need a perfectly flat ground lug or you get side loading of the threads on the barrel/action. While not critical at all on a hunting rig, if small shot groups at long range is what you're after, putting a custom lug on might be worthwhile, but only if you also have a squared up action face, threads and the end of the nut squared off too. Just a perfect lug alone without also having perfectly square surfaces on the action and barrel nut won't make much difference.