Mine is the ACE barrel with Kukri contour.
I doubt that you will have any issue, as far as accuracy concerns go with your barrel being slightly off in the barrel channel.
Over the years I have encountered numerous guns that were slightly off. If you looked at 100 guns closely you would find that there would be way more than you think, that are not exactly perfect to .0005.
You could fix that if you wanted to. You would have to remove material in the receiver and bed the action. Not really a big deal.
You would use something like painters tape or surgical tubing around the barrel to keep it centered in the channel as the bedding cured.
In other words wrap the tape ( or tubing or whatever you use) around the barrel precisely until the tape LIGHTLY touches both sides of the channel, without bottoming out in the channel which would cause the action to be tilted, off level.
Even after a proper bedding job there is no guarantee that the barrel with be perfectly centered in the channel down its length. Some of this depends on the stock itself. But it would be quite a bit better than it is now.
You'll need to shift the position of the entire action in the stock, not just force the barrel into alignment. Just a few thousandths of position change in the receiver will make a big difference in the location of the barrel in relation to the front of the fore end.
Know what I mean?
It's not hard.
T.S. - I had a hard time explaining this even though I've done it about a thousand times. lol
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