I have a potsdam that the stock is pretty chewed up on... I had to do a lot of gluing anyhow, and things seem stable. However... I can also see that there's no support of the breech/bolster area by the wood in any real way, and the recoil against the tang screw has caused it to loosen up, and I had a correspondingly bad skirmish with it. For this season I'm just going to finish by making sure that screw is tight, but is it permissible to bed a smoothie? I'd just want to do the bolster and breech area, and possibly around the front band area to take up some of the shrinkage age has caused. That way if the bedding causes any change in point of impact, I still have space to bend the middle.
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