Heath welcome to the site!

Although I don't qualify to steer your efforts at the bench on this project, I'll forward to your personal message mailbox the phone number of our Steve Zihn.
He can give you the gunbuilder's perspective, and I trust his approach well enough to have hired him to do a similar job for me.

We have a few other members who are also very highly skilled and knowledgeable on this subject who will likely soon join the conversation.

I wish you the best of success with your rifle!

Cheers
Tinker