After visiting 3 shops, it became apparent no one wants to just drill out a hole! So I must resort to the next best thing: do it myself. The holes, remember, are going through perpendicular to the angle we started with to fit the action, or about 89 degrees.

So, I had to chuck the monoblock in my 4 jaw at a skewed angle. makes it fairly hard with my small lathe. not much to 'grab' onto. I'm boring it out on the tight side and have ordered an expansion reamer to finish off the holes.