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set aside and only used when the rifle is<br />
finished. Otherwise they will become damaged.<br />
When the guard is tightened up, you are<br />
nearly finished, so far as inletting goes.<br />
But in shooting for accuracy, you have just<br />
begun. Take the stock in your hand and<br />
check the fore-end tension by "feel." Push<br />
the stock away from the barrel and test the<br />
pressure needed to spring it a little. Barrel<br />
should be slightly lifted from the stock by<br />
from six to eight pounds pressure.<br />
You can get a big rhubarb going among<br />
gun fans over exact poundage at this point-<br />
some say 15 pound~but the weight of pressure<br />
is going to depend on shooting; not on<br />
some arbitrary figure.<br />
Put the gun together, assemble the trigger<br />
and sear, and dust the wood chips out of<br />
the inletting. Check your sights. Then flop<br />
down on the 100-yard range and drape the<br />
musket over a sandbag and see how tight<br />
slie shoots. If you have done the job right<br />
and the metal is solid in the wood, with no<br />
built-in kinks in the action, your gun will<br />
Â¥hoo okay. If it shoots a little loose, you<br />
may want to scrape away some of the foreend<br />
wood, to reduce the stock pressure. If<br />
reducing stock pressure does not close up<br />
the group, try increasing it. This may be<br />
done by spotting and taking off wood on top<br />
of the recoil block. A tiny shaving scraped<br />
off here will alter fore-end pressure. It is<br />
a cut and try process. The same bullet<br />
weight and type of ammunition should be<br />
used in final sighting and finishing.<br />
Plastic stock-bedding materials are used<br />
sometimes to ensure a perfect fit at the<br />
critical points. This is known as "glass<br />
bedding." Gun supply firms such as Herter's<br />
of Waseca, Minn., offer a kit of plastic materials<br />
which are self-hardenink. The action<br />
is dropped into the stock in the traditional<br />
manner. Then the critical points are relieved<br />
more than enough, and the glass bedding<br />
plastic spread on the tang recess and<br />
the recoil block. Thin fiberglass cloth<br />
guards the steel from contact with the<br />
plastic, and at the same time makes an absolutely<br />
smooth surface over the plastic.<br />
When carefully done and not visible from<br />
the outside, this final touch to inletting a<br />
semi-finished stock results in accurate stock<br />
work and an accurate-shooting rifle. The inletting<br />
is finished, and she shoots like a<br />
dream. You can sit back and take it easyvu've<br />
earned it. But tomorrow you can<br />
finish the outside of the stock and blue the<br />
barrel. Stock inletting isn't the whole story<br />
to making a sporter, but it is an important<br />
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