I highly recommend that in a Boyds stock, and especially the laminates, at the very least bed the recoil lug and save yourself a cracked stock. I custom cut on my lathe aluminum pillars and bed all of them. Recoil lug and action. I just completed repairs on a laminate prairie hunter for a friend. It was cracked starting at the recoil lug recess all the way back to the pistol grip. It would have been expensive for him to replace it with another since he had it stippled. I had to pin it, gouge out the cracks and use plenty of acragel.