Ive bought an Omark 44 with the Palma medallion from 1979 trentham event embedded in the stock. It was bought by a bloke after the Palma shoot and has only had a further 250 rounds put through it. It seems to shoot very well. I do a lot of smallbore target shooting and this is to get in to fullbore TR.
The guy i bought it from had a thin brass shim under the rear tang and talked about tightening the front action screw enough to put the barrel under enough tension to "lift the barrel 4 thou. You can slide a sheet of paper between the stock and barrel all the way until 50mm from where the barrel joins the action.
This seems contrary to what i normally understand when bedding a rifle.
I would like to remove the action and barrel from the stock to check and clean trigger etc but am unsure how sensitive they are to correct tensions etc.
How robust is the original bedding system on an omark? Is this brass shim under the rear tang a common arrangement and if so what torque setting should i do the action screws up to.
Any feedback welcomed