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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:00:52 PM EDT
Going to make some pillars to bed my new Savage 12FV and Boyd's stock.  I have both steel and aluminum on hand, any reason to prefer one over the other?  Thanks.

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I would think the material should be softer than the action ? Also Aluminum is much easier to machine and won't rust.

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Steel.
Action is steel, screws are steel.
Steel pillars and everything expands/contracts at the same rate.
Aluminum expands/contracts @ 3X the rate of steel.

See where I'm going?

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