Bending the Tang

[Mark Elliott]

D. Taylor,

Is this about the way you are suggesting?  Plus more draft on the sides of the lug?  

Make the inside corner square, not with a radius. The radius will naturally want to lift the barrel during recoil.

I also think there should be a smaller radius, but you need to be careful with square corners.    A corner is a stress point that leads to cracks.

[Mike Brooks]

After tapering the bolster {that's what I call it} and removing a lot of depth and the large radius of the bolster. I still end up w/ a tang that's a lot thinner at the bolster than at the end of the tang. Seeing I like to start the curve of the wrist some distance into the bbl. or  at the breech end and the tang above the bolster won't bend, how do you guys eliminate the possible flat at the beginning of the wrist?...Fred   

Inlet the barrel and tang then file off what ever is sticking up above the wood level.