1895 marlin stock correct fit?

[7mmstalker]

There is an new unfired 1895G in my hands. As is the case with many factory made guns, the fit is less than perfect. The upper and lower tangs are pretty tight, no visible gap, stock slides onto them smoothly.
My concern is at the front of the wood, where the small flats at the rear body of the receiver meet the small flat surfaces on the sides of the grip area. No contact at all.
This seems like a good way to crack the stock, as all of the recoil force would bear on the rounded surfaces of the rear of the tangs and the small vertical screw connecting them.
Placing a bit of bedding or epoxy in the gap in th front would be pretty simple. I am thinking about removing tiny a bit of material at the rear tangs and the hole for the screw to eliminate all recoil bearing on those rounded surfaces.
Basically this rifle seems to need the receiver to stock connection re-engineered.
Poor workmanship is, unfortunately, getting hard to avoid. I am happy with the rest of the fit and finish on ths rifle, so a bit of fine tuning isn't a big deal.
I do need some feedback from some of the more experienced 'smiths on this board, hoping to do the job once, the right way.

 

[rcmodel]

Yes, you could do that.

But what I would suggest is to glass bed the front of the stock to the rear of the receiver with Brownell's Acraglas.
That will insure a full contact, perfect fit at the front bearing surfaces.

Then relieve enough wood at the tang ends so they no longer touch there.
You are correct that they will split the stock eventually is the tang ends are all there is absorbing the recoil.

rc

 

[7mmstalker]

Again, the words of rcmodel offer confidece to proceed on the correct course.
Thank you for sharing your knowlege and experience with so many of us on this board.

Update 5-27-14

Went to work on a couple of bedding jobs over the Memorial weekend. Wow, what a difference in fit, the Marlin 1895 looked fairly tight, but now it IS tight. Keeping the Acraglas out of the works was a lot more detailed than the bolt action rifle, but the lever gun required such a small amount of bedding, I did both so the mixing ratio would be easier to get correct.
Used the original Acraglas on these, although I have done several with Brownell's "gel" formula. The original's thinner viscosity actually helped. The bolt rifle received a "skin" coat the full length of the barrel channel as well as recoil lug /chamber area, and the 1895 had a small gap and not much surface area for contact. The Acraglas flowed quite well, making full contact on that small area where the stock meets rear of receiver. Popped them both apart this morning.
Time to clean and shoot!