I recently purchased an unwrapped No.4 Mk 2 and spent today cleaning the cosmolineicon off the metal. After cleaning it I noticed the gap between the butt and socket is extremely small. I used my feeler gauge and it is about.004 inches at the shoulder and the metal touches the wood at the very bottom. This rifle was taken out of the wrap about 10 years ago and sat untouched in the gentleman's safe until I bought it. I read Peter Laidlers article about correct figment and I'm worried the butt stock is going to crack if fired. Is this something I should try to fix? I still need to clean the stock off with some natural heat in the sunlight and denatured alcohol before applying some BLOicon. Thanks!
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