I suppose I could add to this discussion. I have a high wall that has been fitted with a short, light barrel in .30-40 Krag obviously set up for hunting. The interesting thing about it is that it has a one piece stock by Farr. There is information on Farr in Landis. He describes that for the woodchuck hunters matches of the late 30s early 40s he figured the only way a single shot could compete with the bolt actions was if it had a one piece stock. He goes on to tell of his unusual bedding system where the recoil is taken up by a dovetailed block which carries a barrel band and is inlet into the forearm. The action itself floats free except that the shortened upper tang has one screw into the stock. The lower tang is cut off at the trigger. It carries a Lyman 1a peep on a shortened tang base. Sounds weird but it works. Once I had found the cast bullet load for it, a less than MOA group at 100 yards resulted.
