bedding plastic stock

[olehunter]

have glassed some other stocks with some :-[ success. recently tried to bed marlin in a plastic stock the results were strange . bedding material will not stick to the plastic . any thoughts?

 

[nfhjr62]

Not that i have bedded many stocks so here my thoughts, rough up the areas to be bedded and on the area were the bedding and stock meet drill or cut some indents to lock in the bedding to the stock.

 

[fullersson]

I would rough up the area to be bedded with a piece of course sand paper.

 

[jonbearman]

I would rough it up and use marine tex or some other type of epoxy that gets harder than normal bedding compound.

 

[katokoch]

I've messed around with a Marlin tupperware stock and ended up filling in all of the empty spaces with expanding foam (which I know now is a risky thing to do), lined the fore-end with carbon fiber (huge help here), and fully bedded it with stainless steel pillars.

The trick I figured out with prepping the stock for bedding so the epoxy stays in place is not just roughing the surface up, but creating some serious mechanical locks by drilling through the stock where the pillars were and made certain epoxy flowed out of them while bedding so it is locked in. You have to use lots of epoxy too... the less you use, the greater chance of failure.

Shooting off of a bipod at 25 yards was getting me sub-.25" groups with Wolf MT and Winchester Super-X hollowpoints. I have since put many critters down with the Super-X rounds in this rifle.

 

[CaptainMal]

Kind of funny you would mention all this as I just bedded a RamLine stock. Had to make a bedding block with pillars as the stock was basically a hollow cavity with nothing to bed to.

After done it looked real good. Tightened down the receiver screw and then snugged the tang screw. Snapped the stock into two pieces.

 

[HillbillySniper]

Atleast it happened while tighting the tang screw down and not while pulling the trigger.

Hillbilly

 

[katokoch]

Heckuva head scratcher

Do you happen to have any more photos of the stock? Did you bed the entire tang? Left a little hump for the tip of the tang to rest on?

 

[CaptainMal]

Really did NOT bed the tang. I did make a couple scratch marks and put literally a drop of bedding compound on those marks. It filled in the scratches and made it smooth. That's it. I literally did nothing with the tang. It snapped apart literally on it's own.

The break has numerous air holes in the material all over the break. I called RamLine and they were very understanding. They offered me a new stock. Already sent the broken one back to them for their inspection. They promised replacement. It was no concern that I made a receiver bedding block. That's far away from the problem anyhow.

Did not take any more pictures and only took this one for my first reply. As you can see in the receiver area - the J.B. Weld bedding held up fine.