Best Bedding Kit?

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Bought a wood stock to replace a plastic one for a bolt action 338 WM and need to bed it. Looking to buy a kit that comes with the bedding compound, mold release etc. since it will be only one rifle. Not thinking of pillar bedding, it has a big lug where the BBL screws in. Will be free floated but bedded an inch or so in front of the lug back to the tang.
 
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I use JB Weld w/ shoe polish for most guns for the simple reason it's the only one I can use without issues. The Probed 2000 kit is great and I love it however, I have an allergic reaction for a week every time I use it. Benadryl doesn't even begin help. The Probed kit comes already dyed to color so you can't necessarily match it to your stock but it seems to match well to most stocks anyway. It really is a great kit. Most Devcons also give me an allergic reaction as well. The original Acraglass is junk in my opinion, avoid it like the plague. People say the gel version is better but I haven't used it personally.
 
Brownell's sells bedding kits, pillar kits and all bedding compounds.
Personally, I make my own pillars and use Devcon 10110 for all bedding jobs, wood, plastic or graphite/kevlar/fibreglass stocks.
If you get the Brownell's kit, get the gel kit, it's easier to use and lasts longer than the non-gel compound.
I recommend you to pillar bed, it is far stronger.

Cheers.
 
Noobie said:
Bought a wood stock to replace a plastic one for a bolt action 338 WM and need to bed it. Looking to buy a kit that comes with the bedding compound, mold release etc. since it will be only one rifle. Not thinking of pillar bedding, it has a big lug where the BBL screws in. Will be free floated but bedded an inch or so in front of the lug back to the tang.
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PRO-BED 2000, from High Score Gunsmithing, Albuquerque,NM
It's the. best bedding product I've every used.
 
RYEWSKY25284 said:
PRO-BED 2000, from High Score Gunsmithing, Albuquerque,NM
It's the. best bedding product I've every used.
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Who makes and where can you buy pro bed 2000 . I have only used BROWNELLS KITS . Can you color pro bed 2000 to match the wood .I have a lot of custom stocks bedded with Brownells and would recommend it but if pro bed 2000 is easier to work with count me in.
 
Another Devcon vote, but I use the Aluminum Putty (10610) as it is actually stronger than the Steel Putty that most everyone else favors. I made a post some years ago that compared all of the specs that I could find at the time for the various bedding epoxies.

Yes to Pillars as well. They can be literally anything metal that is tubular and that will fit. Failing everything else, McMaster sells a wide variety of spacers that can be used.
 
I use Devcon on synthetic stocks and match rifles and Acraglass ( spelling? The Brownell's stuff) on wooden hunting stocks for no other reason than it's easy to stain with what ever color you want. I still use the same can of Johnson Paste wax I've had for about a hundred years, as release agent. I do like to pillar bed wooden stocks and even syn stocks if they don't have an aluminum bedding block.
 
Hard rock said:
Who makes and where can you buy pro bed 2000 . I have only used BROWNELLS KITS . Can you color pro bed 2000 to match the wood .I have a lot of custom stocks bedded with Brownells and would recommend it but if pro bed 2000 is easier to work with count me in.
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Score High Gunsmithing. Albuquerque,NM (Charlie Robertson) 505-292-5532
There is also a YouTube on this product. It's the easiest bedding I've ever used.
 

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