Update—-Still waiting on a nice checkered buttplate, better front sight and lower milled band to arrive. An unissued windage screw assembly came the other day, screwed right in. Nice and tight with a little bit of spring. Got a repro Kerr sling coming too. Loaded up some of my Krag formula loads in .30-06 LC67 brass— 9.7 gr Tin Star with a pointed 170 gr gc .310 cast bullet that I cast. I can hit my 10 inch 60 yard gong offhand with no problem. And with a just drove on wiggly front sight. I’ll sight it in on paper when I get the sights 100%. When those milled parts arrive I’ll work on the stock some more. Don’t want to remove too much wood. I’m thinking that the milled parts are thicker than the stamped parts. Film at eleven.

Tried some 154 gr lead fp a few minutes ago, rifle likes them too with no last rd pop out.

Update 9-11–- The milled buttplate is only a few thousands thicker. Moved the lower band to the rear about an inch and reshaped the high hump handguard to blend it into the lower band step. Now I’ve got to move the band spring too. Still have more wood to remove to make the stock look correct with the new band locations. Got the Kerr sling but I’ve got to recut the rear sling swivel inlet as I removed a lot of wood on the bottom of the stock getting rid of the scant. Got another front sight base [crosspin in the rear] which was a lot tighter on my bbl, thinking that friction and a crosspin should hold it on. With the tighter base it doesn’t drive on the bbl as far so I don’t think the bbl needs cutting just a crowning.