Do you bed your rail?
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If you ever lap your scope rings you will definitely know why it is important to always stress free bed a quality one piece rail.
Once you see the lack of contact and potential stress not laping and beding will give you will always do it.
Also, I would highly recommend using Devcon 10110 instead of JB weld, and use Kiwi natural shoe polish on the action as a release agent. And yes use blue locktite on the base screws.
Once you see the lack of contact and potential stress not laping and beding will give you will always do it.
Also, I would highly recommend using Devcon 10110 instead of JB weld, and use Kiwi natural shoe polish on the action as a release agent. And yes use blue locktite on the base screws.
jimbires
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I bed mine with JB weld .
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JB Weld works fine but after using the putty I like it better as it doesn't run down the sides or into the action if doing pillars. JB gets more liquidy as it gets warmer, works great but can be messy.
bigngreen
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I would suggest not using release agent and straight up epoxy the rail to the action. They come of with just some heat to the rail.
I'm not sure if you can see exactly what I'm doing...but I received my EGW 20MOA rail last week and was waiting on a .250 SS milled lug for my 300wsm Savage.
Ok...I started the front two screws in my new base and the rear was hanging 1/8 of an inch above the rear of the receiver!
Not wanting to add that much filler to support the rear of the base, I used self adhesive sanding disc paper to the front of my receiver and masking tape at the rear...15 minutes later my base lays perfectly. I started the front two screws and the is in full contact.
Next step is some JB weld to stick the base to my receiver!
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If you took off an 8th inch off the front you made a 50 MOA rail LOL
LOL...no the back was an 8th off the rear of the receiver...maybe it was closer to a 16th...it was a big gap that I didn't want to fill...but it fit a hell of a lot better now!
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Yes, you took material off the front of the rail which will make it point lower in relation to the bore. That will add more MOA to your 20 MOA rail. If it's a short action that can be a lot but it looks like there is still some of the black coating on the front rail where you removed the material so it might not be that much.
CaptnC, it's been over a month, sir, and I was wondering how this turned out for you. Have you completed your glue on project, and shot it ? Update, please?
Well Gregg it turned out perfectly. I ended up putting self adhesive sand paper on both surfaces and took it down until the rear was almost perfect...cleaned all the surfaces and JB Weld'ed it on. I did tighten the front snug first and just installed the screws to keep the holes clean. Let it cure for 48 hours, then torqued it down.
I had planned to take it and my newest build (6.5-284) to the range today, but it rained all day yesterday and the range gets pretty sloppy at the 600 yard berm. So both rifles have to wait till next weekend.
Keep us abreast, please. In my mind, putting it on and it STAYING on are two different things. I got the scope base blues myself. Think I am going to do something like what you did, only use Devcon instead, and maybe put some elevation under the back for an moa increase. Read somewhere that .001 is about 1moa @100yds, so maybe 10 or 15 thou of tape. Maybe not , too. Anyway, thanks for the update.
