bedding a stock

[Steve]

Has anyone ever tried to bed a stock that has an aluminum v block in it like a choate varmint stock?
Or would that be a waste of good devcon?

 

[JDJones]

I bed all of my guns with Devcon, its never a waste of time or material to achieve a skin tight fit for your stock to action and the only way to get that is by bedding.

On stocks that have the block conutred to fit the action like HS Precision I like to use a 1/4" drill and make a bunchof shallow dimples about 1/8" deep all through the bedding area and then rough is up with a sanding drum on the dremal tool, this will allow the bedding to form a mechanical lock to the bedding block and the little bit of removed material will help with the bedding thickness as Devcon has a very week thin film strength.

 

[confuzed]

Thanks for the info I was about to post that same question.I recently bought some devcon, could tell me what you use as a release agent?

 

[kells81]

I buy acraglas gel by the gallon, save a ton of money this way, bed almost every rifle, especially HS stocked ones since sometimes the action will walk, it will remove the finish in contact points, bed it and this wont happen.

 

[Preacher]

Those Aluminum bedding block stocks need to be bedded as much as the wood stocks do, and in a lot of cases, even more .....

 

[RDHNTR]

OK if the action is sitting on the pillars why do I want to create more contact by bedding the action? Be kind I'm just a beginner at this accuracy stuff but I'm willing to learn. Frank

 

[Calumet]

It's more than just sitting on pillars. Take into consideration that all factory actions are not microscopically the same. Neither are the bedding blocks of stocks.

By bedding, you get a perfect mate of action to stock, that won't "tweak" on firing,,recoil), causing a new stress point.

Bedding when done properly eliminates stress.

Calumet

 

[RDHNTR]

Ok more lessons learned. I have already bedded my factory stock and it looks good. no movement when action screws are loosened.I thought I might gain something with a replacement stock. You guys just save me $175.oo.Which I will set aside for when I burn out this barrel.Just finished loading some Berger 95gr VLR's in my new nosler brass. Hope to try them out this weekend. Thanks again guys. Frank