Dennis..........I think you said you "staked" the corners, therefore you have a few dimples to deal with. If it were mine, I
would lengthen the dovetail to eliminate those dimples and then fit a piece of steel, tightly, into that slot, draw file it off
flush and live with it. If you brown the barrel I don't think it will show very much.....you might be the only one that knows
it is there. I had a friend who was a well known gunmaker did the same thing you did.....almost. Had this great Jager
almost finished, was fitting the front sight........cut the sight dovetail on one of the side oblique flats. He was in a panic,
needed a new barrel right away. I put the barrel into the milling machine and re-cut the dovetail with a dovetail cutter,
then made an insert by cutting the edges of the piece with the dovetail cutter so that the angles would be the same. I
then drove it into the dovetail slot, trimmed it off and drawfiled it.......disappeared. I then cut a new dovetail on the
proper flat for him..............saved the day...............Don