1st Solo Bedding Job

Don't forget to post a picture when you remove the stock.

Kmccord said:

Well, this is my first solo bedding job, let's see what longtine88 taught me works without his assistance. I taped the dookey out of it to hopefully make cleanup a little easier and quicker. I get to verify if my jig I built to pull it out straight works as well. I think I will leave it in place until Monday afternoon, give it 72hrs to set.

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Rock on kim!

Rick Richard said:

Yes he is. I did an elk hunt with him this past fall.

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Yall making me cry

The first is the big hurdle. Keep us informed on the project. I like doing them and I've never had one shoot worse after getting into it. Good luck.

I always look at it as more than one way to skin a cat, what works for you is all that matters. I raise cattle and there is so many different ways to reach the end goal, so many people are hung up as one way only and anything else is wrong. I always tell them, you raise cattle however suits your needs and schedule and I will do it my way that fits me. The end result is the same, in your case you are shooting tiny little groups, enough said.

Lenny Foffa said:

I did two or three back in my early 20;s. Like Dr Vette said, the thinking was to flip the rifle upside down, mine was tied with surgical tubbing. Now I'm going to say something here and I know I will get blasted for saying this. But here Goes. I bedded my Inter Arm's Mannlicher stocked 20inch barrel, in 30 -06 almost to the very end of the stocks barrel channel. I tried the Richards Micro fit bedding back in the early 80's, Cleaned all the metal applied release agent from my Accuglass kits, roughed up the bedding with a tiny chisel and rough sand paper, and applied the Bedding . It was a lot like thick dark brown tooth paste. I thought that it IF it didn't shoot well, I could always remove the bedding from the barrel channel, and float the barrel. Not a big deal, However It shot really well. IT has stayed like that to this day. The little deer rifle has given me many tiny three shoot 100 yd groups. Yes, Sub MOA . I never shoot the Rifle so much and so fast that the barrel will heat up. Cold bore shots are usually just fine. Ok , I just wanted to share this experience, let the Punches in the head begin.

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My first bedding job was on a Remington 721. I bedded the action, and it did not help much. I then bedded the entire barrel, and it shot great. That was back in the eighties. I have not changed my load recipe or touched the bedding since that time. It still shoots between .5 to .75 MOA. Maybe I just got lucky.

Lenny - NULA full length bedded all of their ultra light rifles and they all shot great. I have bedded a few full stock rifles and they all shot much better full length bedded than before. Remington and Weatherby used pressure spots on their barrels for many years to approximate the effect of full length bedding and I have bedded pressure spots into quite a few 1 and 2 contour barrels to get them to shoot.

OP, look forward to the pictures of the finished project. The first one you learn a whole bunch and it just gets better from there.

Does anyone else use a curing box and also check the bedding job with an indicator?

I don't know what a curing box is. I let mine sit for 3-7 days and never touch it.

On an assembled rifle, If you stand the gun up on the butt, for a right handed man, use the left hand to grab the fore arm Tip and wedge the finger tip against the barrel. Now with your right hand, loosen the front guard screw. You can feel a few thousandths of movement by doing this. If you feel movement, your gun is out of bed, the action is stressed.

Mark37082 said:

Share your material list. I've not got up the courage to try myself.

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Me too

Never done a bed myself. Does the OP have the action screws in and torqued while the bedding is curing?

MOA or bust said:

Never done a bed myself. Does the OP have the action screws in and torqued while the bedding is curing?

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No, I have Forster guide screws, to fill the action threads and to make sure I am centered on the pillars. The only thing I have is the zip ties holding it snug in the stock.

Try putting masking tape around the screws to center them up, put release agent on them.