Action bedding: your before and after presision?

I bed all my rifles and every one that I have bedded the accuracy has improved some better than others. I do all my own bedding so the cost to me is very low and well worth the time it takes to do it.
 
Hi. Bedding doesn't guarantee improved accuracy if the rifle doesn't have a good barrel. It will improve consistency though.
You still have to work up the load or try a box of as many brands and bullet weights as you can to find the ammo your rifle shoots best.
Do a trigger job and have good sights as well. Iron or optic sights doesn't matter.
Floating the barrel doesn't always improve accuracy either. Some rifles just don't like it. The only way to find out if it does is to try it. Fortunately, putting a pressure point in isn't a big deal. You just put a bit of bedding material about an inch or so aft of the end of the forestock. Do not forget the release agent.
"...do all my own bedding..." Decidedly satisfying it is too.
 
My rifle is currently only partially bedded, maybe two inches of it towards front of stock. Also it has a heavy, free floating barrel. I decided to get action completely bedded because I am getting into reloading for long range shooting. So I thought I might as well do it. Just wondering if I can expect to see improvement.
 
One benefit of bedding that you may not be able to see is that the rifle should hold it's zero long, shooting season to shooting season.

As for accuracy, I have seen next to no improvement to a lot. I had a CG63 once that shot like crap because the bedding was decayed. After I re-bedded it, groups shrunk in half.
 
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