The term bedding refers to the fit and stability of a barreled action within the rifle stock. Rifle bedding is fundamental to rifle accuracy. This is what modern bedding blocks are doing too.Click here for MatchGrade instructions and videos online.Ĭlick here to download printable PDF instructions. If you read older material on accurizing a rifle, particularly from mother Russia, they shimmed the front and rear action screw areas until the action was lifted clean off the rest of the wood between the screw holes. Similarly a smaller contact area in the front minimizes the interference to the flex there and also helps to maintain a consistent starting point for the flex cycle. actually the thinner this area (small dimension along the length of the rifle) the better it is (until the point where the stress begins to deform the action/bedding block contact). Where this point lies, decides how much the action flexes and how much the stock flexes in the space between the recoil lug recess and this rear contact.īy ensuring a well defined rear contact (small contact) we can ensure that the action flexes the same every time. If the action is contacting the bedding all through, tiny variations in shot to shot might move the actual effective point of rear support for the action, where the action is being pushed upwards during the recoil. The key to accuracy is more in the consistency of how the action flexes every time. I could tell no difference in accuracy at different torque settings from 35-65 inch pounds. I did a bit of testing the other day with my properly bedded. Probably a lot of smushed bedding out there because of it. Unfortunately, at least I think so, this torque setting as filtered into the minds of some shooters as THE torque setting, no matter the bedding method. I've tried the indicator/bedding test on a couple of these.the needle on my indicator looked to be spinning 10,000 rpm's as I tightened and loosened the action screws! H&S recommends that the action screws be torqued at 65 inch pounds, which should be plenty of umph to straighten a crooked action or bedding block. I had to re-evaluate my action trueing procedure.who needs a lathe when you have a bench grinder! Hell.I took apart a 700 awhile back and found a big, fat, grind mark ala a bench grinder on the action face! Must have had a high spot. Good post! Your thoughts re-affirm mine that the bedding blocks are probably machined to a tighter tolerance than the Remington actions. So how can you expect something that was hand finished with a belt sander and then polished or glass beaded to fit perfectly into a one size fits all bedding block? The aluminum bedding blocks are CNC machined and are very similar, I won’t go so far as to say that they are all the same but they are very very close. What you have to understand is that Remington 700 actions are heat treated after machining and the outside is hand finished after heat treating prior to bluing. The bolt works, the rifle is very accurate and I will be doing more rifles for them in the future. I milled out clearance in the aluminum block installed pillars and bedded the action with steel reinforced epoxy. The action was the DBM style not the BDL and the aluminum bedding block was so far off and stressing the action that the. With the screws loose the bolt worked fine. When I went to install the align reamed and trued barreled action into the stock, with the action screws tight the bolt was a "little sticky". The customer didn't want to have the stock "glass bedded" as part of the job. It was part of a Remington PSS that was in for a full house accuracy job. I'd go shoot it and see what happens.Ī while back. I examined one that had overspray from the stock finish.clumpy black stuff that did nothing good for action/block contact, on the tang area of the bedding block, but it shot lights out. Now.having said all that, some of them really shoot.crappy bedding and all. I view them, as is from the factory, as being half pillar bedded.the bedding block being the pillars. As the above does not lend itself to gilt-edge accuracy, I routinely skim bed them. And anytime I've done the indicator check/test on one, it's made me ill. Any time I get one, I Prussian blue the action and bolt it into the stock to check for contact.and it is usually minimal. But I have yet to see an HS stock with the integral bedding block that made any sort of decent contact with the action. Most people believe the hype and think these stock are the greatest thing since bottled bourban, eliminating the need for glass bedding.
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