Bedding a mountain rifle (Remington 700 LSS in 270 Win.)

[Warden70]

Hello fellow firearm and gunsmith enthusiasts!

I have the above rifle and it shoots like s$%t with everything I've tried through it, so I figure this is a bedding problem. In researching the best approach to bedding rifles with slim barrel profiles, I've heard 4 schools of thought:

1. Bed the action, float the barrel.
2. Bed the action, bed entire barrel channel.
3. Bed the action, bed the chamber area to where the straight taper begins.
4. Bed the action, bed 1 inch back from the forend tip.

I'm thinking of pillar and glass bedding it, and bedding the length of the chamber while floating the rest of the barrel. No forestock tip pressure.

I'd like to hear from those who've done a mountain rifle or skinny barrel bedding job and were successful in getting good accuracy, 1 MOA or better with a 3-shot groups.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Buckmastr]

Number 1
Or sell it

 

[RangerPark]

Option 3, with pillars. 1 is fine too. I bed all my rifles to about 1 inch forward of the action, or whatever the straight part of the barrel is.

I bedded my Remington 700 Mountain SS in .308 that way. Shot 1/2 MOA to 200 yards with Handloads, Berger 185 gr Hunting VLDs and IMR 4064. Sold it, bought it back, sold it again, wish I'd kept it.

 

[guntech]

I have bedded the action and floated the barrel on a few of them (wood stocks) and re crowned and cleaned the barrel. Usually about the best a mountain rifle shoots is around an inch - inch and a quarter. I don't think pillar bedding or bedding of the barrel would add any accuracy.

 

[gunpro]

Go with #3. Now if your stock has some flex to it and there is any contact in the barrel channel to the barrel at all, you could bed the action and the barrel channel leaving a rigid glass path to help with reduction of barrel flex or pressure on your barrel. the barrel is floated from the front of the chamber to the end of the stock. if you still are not getting the accuracy you desire or think the gun should have fold up a business card, match book and insert it under the barrel at the for end tip for constant pressure and shoot again. if the groups are better then take out the card and glass the end of the barrel channel. you could do this test as well if the stock is rigid. of course there could be other issues with what is causing your groupings from bullet weight to barrel twist, rough bore, bad crown, loose scope mounts or a busted scope

 

[Finger Toes]

Nmmmm