What I've learned thus far is:

As a rule of thumb "V" threaded barrels on round bottom actions can benefit from a free floated barrel and accuracy isn't much affected/effected by the screw's torque. That's good news for
Savage 110 & Remington 700.

Most of my milsurps are flat bottom actions and square threads and are a different animal when it come to torquing down the screws. These rifles seem to shoot better with some amount of up pressure from the fore end of the stock. But there seem to be a big difference in the torque pressures between Mauser K98icon, 91/30, 03A3, T38 and the K31icon as well as to the shimming of the fore end of their stocks.

So if there are any rules for figuring how to torque action screws and amount of shimming on these ladies? I would love to be enlightened.
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