Ruger 77 tang safety bedding

[bruno9]

The stock is finally relieved and the pillars are on the way, so moving forward on my first bedding job. The current crop of pressing questions that I have are:

Since the Ruger recoil lug is set up at a 60 degree angle and the back tang bolt is at the standard 90 degrees, the only way that I can figure to bed the pillars and glass the rifle is to do it in two stages. Bed the front pillar at the same time that I glass and bed the action, without bedding the tang area, and then coming back and bedding the pillar and tang area. Am I seeing this right or am I severely missing something here?

The next question that I have is, since this rifle sports a bull barrel should I bed the first two and a half inches of the barrel to relieve any stress on the barrel/action threads? I've relieved the barrel channel and have about 3/32 to 1/8 all the way down.

Lastly, for now, since the stock is wood I was hoping to be able to add a coloring agent to the devcon 10110 so I can get a line of bedding compound that more closely matches the color of the stock. I e-mailed devcon but the tech just said it only comes in grey (thanks Mr. tech). Does anyone know of anything that I can use that will not degrade or weaken the epoxy.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[civil82]

Right or wrong, I did the Ruger in two steps. First, I epoxied both pillars into place, then glass bedded the action. No reasoning behind my method other than I felt more comfortable doing it that way and it felt "easier" to me to have some sort of two-step method.

There was a discussion here a while back about bedding the first few inches of the barrel, I don't recall the outcome other than some had preferences for one reason or another. I say float it all and add bedding later if you feel like it could use it. It is easier to add than to remove.

Color thread:

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3840387.msg36375206#msg36375206

 

[Raythemanroe]

I don't know how much the color of the bedding matters being you shouldn't see much, but that is personal preference.. I bedded my Ruger m77 and pillar bedded the same time, I had two problems when I parted the action and stock. My first problem was the casting on the flat of the action behind the recoil lug was so rough or pitted the Bedding compound would stick to the action (yes I used shoe polish)..I finished that part of the action off a bit and re bedded it. The second problem was the the rear pillar wouldn't let the trigger function properly. I had to remove a good portion of the trigger side of the pillar to accommodate the trigger..


Ray

 

[bruno9]

Thanks for that heads up on the rear pillar/trigger interaction, I'll take a look at that when the pillars get here. Those are the type of things that can make or break a deal for a first timer.
Bruno

 

[flur60]

Check out this post! Best on the net IMHO (I did a lot of searching) :

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/3003214/2

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I followed these instructions when bedding my M77 MK II in 6PPC. It came out awesome! Considering it was my first "real" bedding job I couldn't be happier!

Good luck