Stock fitting/torque

[BritishBeer]

Having read the articles, I have a fair bit of work to do.

Apologies for going over beaten ground when the answers were already there!

[ssj]

Main reason stopping me from moving abroad. One day my home brew will taste less revolting and I'll be off.

Regarding the extra contact at the mid point, I thought one of the main benefits of the No4s over their predecessors was that it only had contact and pressure at the muzzle end?

Not speaking from experience or having tested what you mentioned but I can't imagine any target shooter having wanted a less free floating barrel.

Keeping mine std as well. My No4's not exactly rare but I like it being as original as possible.

Sorry for any typos, been out investigating more into why our beer's warm.

I had just this discusion with Peter some weeks back. The original and hard to beat "stocking up" is indeed from what I can read, a 3 to 5 lb upward pressure point at the muzzle end only. There have been usurpers, (various locations for mid-point bedding) but its hard to find evidence of them being much if any better than the original method. The original method also means that if you want to shoot in service rifle competitions you wont be excluded because your method isnt "as-issued". If my 2 stocks are anything to go by though, they do need repairing and fitting to get them back to as issued to restore lost accuracy due to age or bad workmanship.

[45B40-95B40]

BritishBeer & RCEMERalf & ssj – THANKS VERY MUCH !!!

Many thanks to BritishBeer & RCEMERalf & ssj for correcting my misconception that most beers are served throughout Great Britain at “room” temperature when most of those beers are actually served at “cellar” temperature.

BritishBeer:
I used to think that the British currency conversion from “old pence” to “new pence” – which started about a year and a half before I visited Great Britain – was the only thing that was purposely done to confuse tourists like myself. While I only drank British beer when I was in Great Britain, most of the beer I drank was bottled beer and not keg beer.
I bought an Anschutz 1413 in 1968 and shot it for years with no problems at all, and I never used a torque wrench on either of its action screws.
Thanks for your offer to “reacquaint” me with British beers. Unfortunately, I doubt that I’ll ever again leave the United States for the rest of my life. I’ve never had any need for a passport – my United States Army Military Police Identification Card served as my “passport” when I visited Great Britain back in 1972, and I never needed a passport any of the times I visited Canada. (Of course, the last time I visited Canada was in the early 1990’s).
Military slang has added quite a few important terms to the English/British language. “SNAFU” and “FUBAR” are probably the most used of those terms, but “GI shower” and “short timer” are two of my favorite terms.
I commend you for your continued commitment to diligently investigating why most British beers are served at cellar temperature.

RCEMERalf:
I believe that some extremely misguided Americans are primarily responsible for unjustly characterizing British Lucas automobile/motorcycle electrical components as being “unreliable” when almost all American automobile/motorcycle electrical components of the same vintage were equally unreliable. Similarly, I believe that some extremely misguided Americans are responsible for unjustly characterizing Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle as “inferior” to almost all American bolt action rifles because of the Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle’s rear locking bolt and two-piece stock only because almost all American bolt action rifles of the same vintage have front locking bolts and one-piece stocks.

ssj:
I’ve consumed my fair share of beer, and I’ve never consumed any German beer nor any British beer – either keg or bottled that had an “awful” taste. However, I
have consumed quite a few American beers – both keg and bottled – that had “awful” tastes. For the record, I gave up drinking beer – for health reasons – more than twenty (20) years ago.

Thanks again for all of your insight and information.

RALPH VAN BUREN (45B40-95B40)