In doing this fitting it was evident that the standing breach was "tweeked". When we started we had light coming through the bottom fo the barrels and the water table. As we progresed the space got smaller and smaller. Much the same thing with the barrels and the standing breach. As we got closer to a good fit and the action bar intersecting the bottom of the barrel lump the space between the barrels and the standing breach got tighter. Last weekend I had .0015 thousands between the right barrel and the standing breach. Today that feeler gauge will almost go into the space between the barrels and the standing breach on both sides.
I think Ron Coleman (retierd gunsmith) did not want to take much material away from the hook as it would have been getting the barrel breach away form the standing breach. With the "tweeked" condition of the action this might have caused more problems that it would have solved. I asked about this and Ron said it was not out of the question but he wanted to get the barrels matched up with the standing breach as well as possible. This sounded logical to me. We did not need to remove any material from the hook area.
Regards, Gordon
