Hi guys, i recently started a thread in precision rifle forums, and decided i better ask here to get the true answer.
This april i purchased your ESS chassis for savage SA.
Which is advertised as no bedding required.
Installed per instructions, including having recoil lug contact before fastening action bolts to 60 in/lbs.
Right off the start i had very good accuracy for a stock savage pipe and action (0.7moa)
I perfected my reloads meanwhile and even shrunk it to 0.4/0.5 moa)
Fast forward 700 rounds later and i am struggling to get sub moa.
Decided to check action screws torque, still was at 60 in/lbs.
I pushed it further and fully dissassembled everything (scope from rings, receiver rail, chassis etc...) to reinstall fresh.
Noticed that the action and the chassis, have 4 elongated contact points.
On action the bluing wore off to metal, in chassis cerakote wore off.
And was a paste between action and chassis, kind of a mix of cerakote and bluing.
Cleaned everything up, reassembled to spec, and am magically back to 0.4moa again.
In this case, does your chassis require bedding?
Or did i break it in so to speak, and now that bluing and cerakote used i won’t have this sludge creating itself again and will retain my accuracy for a longer period?
Cheers