Rifle bedding

[ovenpaa]

As an update I had to bed another rifle this week and given the cooler temperatures I used JB Weld this time as it always seems to flow slightly easier and the results were perfect.

One tip I can give if you are going to bed a rifle is build or buy a set of extended T handles. I build my own and these ones were machined from some offcuts of aluminium bar found in the scrap bin. Drilled and tapped to suit the bedding screws which were M6 on this occasion I screw short lengths of studding into the action and give them a good smear of Vaseline first so they come out easily if any bedding compound is pulled down into the pillar, then seat the action into place using the studs to align it and screw the T handles on from the bottom, this saves hassle trying to align the action to the pillars and the potential problem of pushing bedding compound up into the action screw threads.

The O rings on the T handles are simply to keep them together.

I machine my pillars ID to a snug fit for the screws and then open them up slightly once the bedding is finished to give some clearance.

[hitchphil]

As a quick & 'interim' measure to enable some LH shooters to compete in an event I bedded a RH Swing TR into a bit of redundant LH Paramount wood with Ispopon car body filler! took ~2 hrs, my usual release agent didn't work as well as hoped so had to fill some holes but it held ~1MOA at 900yds?

That rifle now has its original Swing stock - Devon90 bedded, the LH as above & an Anschutz 1813 glass epoxy bedded stock & is the most versatile gun I have & it maintains ~1moa fitted to any of the 3. There is a lot of non-science in bedding & possibly the workability of the material is a more important consideration, in my case Devon, glass & the least workable was Isopon.