Shawn, I found that the key, for me, is to bore the magazine tube hole first.
IMO the optimum forearm bedding method would depend greatly upon the heat generated by the load. In my experience, single shot rifles with sporter-weight barrels and high-intensity cartridges will not yield their best accuracy when bedded against both surfaces and fired at even a leisurely pace. Barrel heats up and the shots walk. However when fired quite slowly these same rifles would shoot extremely well! By the same token most Schuetzen rifles have heavy barrels and are chambered for relatively low-intensity cartridges and are usually fired at what I can only describe as an extremely leisurely pace (G), so I would expect the forearm bedding method to have a somewhat lesser effect. Same with the barrel-resting method with heavy barrels, logic tells us that the heavy barrels should show less effect. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it 'cause it works for me. I bed single shots against the barrel only (with or without a bedding block) and free-float all bolt rifles.
Regards, Joe
