Morning range session.

[LehighBrad]

Just spent the morning at the range shooting my recently completed rifle. Upon doing so a teenie tiny area of wood pushed up ever so slightly behind the barrel tang due to the barrel seating itself into the channel more. How would the best way to repair it be?? Just sand, stain, and re-oil? Or scrape, stain, and re-oil....or is there another way out there to fix it??

[Acer Saccharum]

You might want to stabilize the area from inside the tang inlet first. Take some sure thin crazy glue, soak the endgrain with the glue, put a piece of poly sheeting over the spot, and clamp. Let the glue set.

Then trim some wood from behind the tang so that the barrel can come back without popping the wood off. Stain the newly exposed wood.

You might also want to check that your pins have room to move in the barrel lugs. If not, file them oval to allow the bbl to move back and forth a bit.

[Dennis Glazener]

You might want to stabilize the area from inside the tang inlet first. Take some sure thin crazy glue, soak the endgrain with the glue, put a piece of poly sheeting over the spot, and clamp. Let the glue set.

Then trim some wood from behind the tang so that the barrel can come back without popping the wood off. Stain the newly exposed wood.

You might also want to check that your pins have room to move in the barrel lugs. If not, file them oval to allow the bbl to move back and forth a bit.

Not sure what your tang looks like but you might file some of the metal off the tang to create a slight gap between the wood and the tang. I would think that the breechplug/tang should now be tight against the wood but you might want to consider bedding the breech area to prevent further movement.
Dennis

[LehighBrad]

Acer....I slotted the underlugs on the barrel during the build...the pins have plenty of room to move (horizontally) that is. I made sure of that for fear of the forestock cracking from expansion and contraction over the years, let alone barrel recoil. Of course I also THOUGHT my barrel was back tight against the back of the barrel channel too and appearently it wasn't. The wood pushed up about .010 / .015 high from the main surface and about 1/8" back from the end of the tang. Thanks for the quick response guys....looks like the barrels coming back out, the tang filed a tad shorter, and the wood in the end of the tang inlet will be shaved out slightly and the end grain reinforced with some glue. I'll beeswax any small visual gap.