I am working on my Martini henry project.. Making my first stock from scratch. I have the forend roughed out. I am attaching it with two pins and inlet into the front of the stock. One pin is the original in the back and another up front.
The question is should I bed the barrel to fit tight into the forearm full length? Or should just have it make contact at the two pin points? Please advise.
As I said this is my 1st stock ever. I am using a p.c. of cherry. I am patterning the rifle on the sporters form that era ala pictures in the DBL Gun Journal.
Jerry
