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How far forward to bed

I'm putting together a long range varmint / F class rifle with a 32" heavy palma contour, Barnard P action into a Mcmillan A5 stock. The gunsmith suggested not to use a vee block but to bed the conventional way with the addition of aluminium pillars. Question is do you stop the bedding at the action face or continue further on a precision rig? Any advise is greatly appreciated. The Gunsmith in question sat on the fence with this one ???
 
This was just discussed here:

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3784919.0

The consenus was there is no clear set rule. I have watched a couple of bedding videos. They both do not bed beyond the recoil lug unless it is a 30" extra heavy barrel, then only and inch or so. Good luck with your project. I am working on one that someone messed up badly.
 
You will get mixed reviews on this one. Some smiths bed just the action area and some go beyond the recoil lug and bed the chamber area. I have rifles bedded both ways and see no difference. These are HV barrels.

I might add the stocks are not factory and have aluminum stiffeners in the forend area.
 
I am a high master long range shooter and a gunsmith. I bed my barrels about 1 inch in front of the action to support the heavy weight and recoil of the barrel. With that being said the Bernard action is a real brute and may not need any assistance with the bedding in front of the action. However the Bernard does have a small recoil lug and it may well be helpful to bed in front of the action for about 1 inch. I doubt if you will see any difference with either method, however I have never heard of anyone having a problem with this type of bedding.
Paul Larson
 
I'm not a 'smith. Just a shooter. I recently had a 'smith I was introduced to in Central Utah, re-bed a rifle that had a bad bedding job. A Pierce SA with a 24.5" #3 Broughton in 6.5x47. He asked me how I would shoot my rifle; target or hunting. Which basically meant hot barrel or cold barrel. For me, hunting. For cold barrel shooting he prefers to bed with some pressure under the chamber. For hot barrel shooting, he prefers total free float.

Just a week or so back, I was conducting a test to see what Redding neck bushings worked better in my Type-S FL die; .287", .288" or .289". I shot three 5-shot groups for each bushing. The first group was from a cold barrel with at least 3 minutes between each shot. The second group was from a "warm" barrel with about 1 minute between shots; warm barrel. The third group was shot as fast as I could run the bolt, reacquire the target and press the trigger; hot barrel. Ambient temps were in the mid 60's. Each group, cold, warm and hot increased in size by about .1" to .6" (100 yds) each step up in shooting speed. I have no idea if this is a repeatable test with other actions, barrels, cartridges, etc. It proved to me, with my rifle, I need to slow down my shooting when working on load development.

Alan
 

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