bradtx: The holes on the Long Branch receiver are just like what you put up. Thanks for that. Next time I go to town, I will be getting some setscrews and loctiting them in. In your pic, it looks like Bubba found the charger guide on that rifle,also. Looks as if the rear sight might have been changed out, no Bubba cut and it is a different color than the rest of the body.

I had a micrometer rear sight as a spare from another gun, so I replaced the "L". Don't have to look at Bubba's nick any more. On the charger guide, I polished out the tool marks and cold blued it.

This rifle's barrel is a 2-groove, and looks as if it was cared for. Pressure marks inside the forestock are pretty uniform. The chamber support area of the forestock has what I'd have to call a chip of wood, located and installed by a wood dowel drove vertically. Nice piece of work, and it showed bearing marks.

I decided to go with the center bearing bedding method, I like simple. This afternoon I took some wood out of the front of the forestock channel up front, and acraglassed the center bearing point and the chamber area. The other body support areas and recoil lugs will get skimmed later, it seems as if they don't need much judging from uniform pressure marks.

The trigger guard assembly was stamped, and apparently built in pieces, a new one to me as an FNG. The mag area of it was real tight, too tight on the S/N'ed-to-rifle mag, so I enlarged it by twisting a large screwdriver handle through it until it gave up the ghost, and accepted and dropped the mag freely. And it didn't screw up the trigger pull by doing that.

linseed oilicon and 0000 steel wool have cleaned up and lightened the forestock and rear handguard, the newer buttstock and front handguard don't look near as clashy as they used to.

I'm looking forward to zeroing this gun tomorrow when the glue has set up.