Bedding Savage McMillan (Pics)

[DoubleGobble00]

Well I jumped off into bedding my Savage on Tuesday and finished it up last night. I think it turned out pretty good for my second gun to bed. I used Marine-Tex gray and Kiwi neutral shoe polish for release agent. I almost messed up and had it stick. A large amount of bedding material got between the magazine and it took about an hour to work it out of the stock but once I got it out.. it was all good from there.

Prep Work





Big squeeze



Before clean up



After clean up with dremmel tool. I colored the areas on the stock were I removed the black paint with black sharpie.







Action in place:



Ready to shoot:



DoubleG

 

[Elkbane]

Looks good. Two suggestions - make sure your tang is free-floated and open up the bolt holes by turning a 1/4" drill bit by hand. Sometimes bedding material oozes down in there - you want the recoil lug only taking the recoil force, not the action screws. You may have already done this......


Elkbane

If you do another one, I've found electrical tape to be flexible enough to cover the gaps between magazine and action and you can use it to cover the whole magazine (even bottom) so you don't get any sticking. Use release agent on it just like the blue tape. Keeps from having ti plug those gaps with putty and dig it out afterwards.

 

[chuckbuster243]

Looks good! hope it shoots well for you! Matt

 

[DoubleGobble00]

Thanks for the tips. I did remove the material from the screw holes to make sure the bolts were not touching. There was a small about of compound in the holes. Good thought on the electric tape... That putty is a pain to remove.

When I "white knuckle" tighten the rear screw the tang does not float. I believe it is because a large area is bedded on one side of the action screw while the other has no support. It makes the action tilt to the side. See the area below in the picture.. I think this is causing the tang to touch when you tighten the screw super tight. If I just make it real snug, the tang does not touch. I am debating on removing the red highlighted area but will shoot it first to see and just leave the rear screw snug.

 

[madderg]

you might also try and put a small O-ring on the rear tang screw between the action and the stock.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Nice job. My buddy and I bedded my McMillan last year and we put a rear pillar in. I don't know why they do n't come from the factory with both pillars, Remington's do... :

 

[teele1]

with CDI bottom metal
you mean like this Snowman?

 

[Dgd6mm]

Yup, thats the one. 8) The 6MM Competition Match.

 

[DoubleGobble00]

Shot the gun for the first time today... Took me a while to get close to zero'd at 100 yds and I was running out of time.. So I shot one 3 shot group at 100 yards and she did pretty good for the first try. I think it will do a little better than that. Winds were about 10-15 mph and I didn't take my time. So far I am please though.




DoubleG

 

[DoubleGobble00]

I stretched it out to 200 yards today. I was pretty darn windy and mirage was terrible... but the vertical in the groups was not bad. Appeared to be about 1 inch at 200 yards. I hope to get it shooting further soon.