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<blockquote data-quote="mwkelso" data-source="post: 2015203" data-attributes="member: 110880"><p>I have a Weatherby Vanguard S2 that I had been having one heck of a time getting to shoot. (1-1/2" group at 100 was as good as it was gonna get).</p><p>Chasing loads all over the books, adjusting seating depth until I was out of space either direction, etc.</p><p>Enough to rip out some hair!</p><p></p><p>It still sits in it's original, synthetic stock until I have the time to finish re-working an old Mark V stock for it.</p><p></p><p>On to the question: I got a wild hair to see how far the action would need to be shimmed up before the barrel would begin to float from the stock, and did this using thin slices of paper.</p><p>16 layers to make it float at the fore-end!!!!</p><p></p><p>Now I really don't care to bed this action, but I would like to have this rifle be shootable until it's new stock is finished.</p><p>Is there any reason I could not mill an aluminum shim to sit between the action and stock in the mean time?</p><p></p><p>Or even a short spacer that fits snug to the action screws?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mwkelso, post: 2015203, member: 110880"] I have a Weatherby Vanguard S2 that I had been having one heck of a time getting to shoot. (1-1/2” group at 100 was as good as it was gonna get). Chasing loads all over the books, adjusting seating depth until I was out of space either direction, etc. Enough to rip out some hair! It still sits in it’s original, synthetic stock until I have the time to finish re-working an old Mark V stock for it. On to the question: I got a wild hair to see how far the action would need to be shimmed up before the barrel would begin to float from the stock, and did this using thin slices of paper. 16 layers to make it float at the fore-end!!!! Now I really don’t care to bed this action, but I would like to have this rifle be shootable until it’s new stock is finished. Is there any reason I could not mill an aluminum shim to sit between the action and stock in the mean time? Or even a short spacer that fits snug to the action screws? [/QUOTE]
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