Screeeeech!. That is the sound of me stomping on the brakes with this project. My original plan was to demote the 38-70 barrel to ‘Old Rusty’ an octagon top action that at one time had evidently gotten rusted and cleaned up leaving lots of pits. I picked it up with a nice buttstock and a .22 barrel several years back at the Oregon Arms show. It has been the test action or ‘where should I put this barrel?’ Action for the last several years. Then while laying awake last night I thought, why not just put the 38-70 barrel back on the nicer action that it had been on where everything fit well and put the 3D 32-40 barrel on Old Rusty and deal with the issues I mentioned in the original post with that action. It only took 15 min to put the 38-70 back together and park it in the safe. I had tried the 3D barrel on Old Rusty and knew I would have to bevel the protruding edge on the action to get it to clear the corners of the 3D octagon #3+ barrel. Once I did that it ended up clocking easily without over rotating like it did on the newer action. Then I test fired it before moving on the fitting the extractor and the primer strike was not low like it was yesterday. Then I inserted the extractor that protruded into the chamber yesterday with the newer action and lo and behold it fit perfectly. Just goes to show you that the older actions are not always 100% the same as newer ones. I just need to find some wood that fits, add scope blocks and I am all set. I think Old Rusty may have finally found a permanent barrel. Time to find some more parts to play with. 

Jack