Ruger No 1 through bolt pillar?

[Rafiki]

I'm having a new stock made for my Ruger No 1, 500 Sharps. I got to thinking about stocks cracking on heavy recoiling No 1's and if a pillar installed in the through bolt hole would help mitigate any potential problem. Has anyone done this or this a solution looking for a problem.

 

[Nhoro]

Pillars are mainly to stop compression of the wood an isolate the screw from wood expansion and shrinking. Splitting of a stock is often started on the end grain by the action splitting the wood. So to stop that you could put epoxy bedding compound between the stock and action or a steel insert epoxied to the stock or even a wooden insert which is cross grain. It is why we glass bed behind the recoil lug- to give a uniform recoil surface and hold the wood together.

 

[Rafiki]

Pillars are mainly to stop compression of the wood an isolate the screw from wood expansion and shrinking. Splitting of a stock is often started on the end grain by the action splitting the wood. So to stop that you could put epoxy bedding compound between the stock and action or a steel insert epoxied to the stock or even a wooden insert which is cross grain. It is why we glass bed behind the recoil lug- to give a uniform recoil surface and hold the wood together.

So basically you are saying that a steel insert epoxied in the through hole would/may be good insurance for my rifle; The new stock is being done with an impressive piece of wood so I'd like at lease to believe that there is a little bit of insurance against it splitting; guess doing it couldn't hurt anyway.

Thanks for your comment.