mcassill

Sorry for the delay here; the last week has been nuts, and it looks like I may have to put off the whole project for quite a while. Anyway, I did ask him about that by PM there; his explanation makes all kinds of sense. Mark

Very interesting. Thanks much for the info, fellas. I know from measuring that I do have a bolt face parallel with the outer shoulder; I guess the decision comes down to whether torquing to both shoulders (vs. just the outer one) would give a benefit worth the considerable trouble involved in making it happen. Mark

Working on building a 6.5x55 sporter on a K Kale Turk action. Did some measuring after getting the outer torque shoulder squared to the receiver ring threads, and found that the inner shoulder is about .009" out of square with everything else. Way I'm looking at it I have a couple of options for dealing with this. One would be to build a tool to cut the inner shoulder square to everything else; the other would be to just leave the barrel shank a couple thou short so that it doesn't contact the off-kilter inner shoulder. Any thoughts on which would be the better (or easier) way to go here? Thanks in advance. Mark