Bedding a plastic Remmy stock

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alinalberta

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I have epoxy bedded quite few wood stocks but have never tried a factory "tupperware stock. I personally would never own one. However a friend of mine asked me to try to do something with his factory rifle . It is a stainless 300 WSM Rem 700 with the factory plastic stock. He likes the gun but feels it is a little short in the accuracy dept and would like it bedded to try to improve things.
I degreased with acetone a spot in the barrel channel, sanded with 80 grit and degreased again and then mixed up a little acraglass and applied it. 4 days later I picked at it with fingernail and it flecked right off. Any epoxy bedding would adhere with mechanical means only. No real adhesion.
Has anyone have any advise on the best way to improve the factory bedding. Someone must have played a bit with this. If it was my own gun, I would definitely experiment with it but since it is not, I would prefer some advice from someone who has been there done that
When I took the stock off, I was surprised how little support the stock offers the action. There really is very little there
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
 
i have bedded a three rems in tupperware. i dremeled out a little material then undercut the recoil lug slot. i have hogged it out so as to have a build up of acugel. then i took a 1/16 drill bit and drilled achor holes on an angle all over the area to be bedded. bedded as usual . i don't think skim bedding would work on tupper ware. the glass need to be thick enough to take the pounding. this method worked well enough for a 338 06 and a couple of other lighter calibres untill i could afford better stocks.
 
I agree on the skin bedding. There were two methods I was considering. One is to remove enough of the plastic wall behind the recoil lug to get a decent amount of epoxythere and then filling the voids between the plastic walls with epoxy that would come up and support the front receiver ring.I would rough all the plastic that the epoxy contacted.
The other was to pretty well remove all the plastic walls between the recoil lug and the magazine wall including the plastic pillar around the screw. I would then machine a piece of aluminum to fit in that space loosely.That block would have a hole through it fro the action screw. Rough up the walls and use epoxy to fill the space around the block and to fit against the receiver ring and fit against the recoil lug.
In both methods I would remove some plastic around the rear action screw and undercut to create a shallow pillar that would fit against the action .
comments?
 
i don't think the stock is worth enough to warrent removing all that material. my method is quick and worked well. if you remove all that material the acugas would need to bond well to the stock. i don't think thats possible. anchor holes and an undercut in the recol area seems to give a fair mechanical lock but its not the same as bedding a glass stock like aa macmillan. the acugas becomes part of a fibregass stock not just a mecanical conection. i have never removed more than an 1/8th of an inch of material. the ones i have done never failed. the last mackmillan i bedded i used west epoxy and poly microfibres to thicken. i don't think i will be going back to acuglas. the abilty to mix the exact thicknes with the west system won me over. i also bed the first two to three inches of the barrel. the stock is too flexible and probably not worth the effort for major mods..
 
I glass bedded my stainless Remington 700 300 WM about 8 years ago with a method similar to that mentioned above by chappy. I used a dremel to remove material and a 1/8" bit to make lots of anchor holes about 3/16" deep. This rifle has spent one week every year in an ATV scabbard in some pretty rough terain and been shot a fair bit every year. When I took it apart this past winter to lighten the trigger pull it still fit together like mamma fits pappa. That was my first glass bedding job too.
 
I don't feel there is an advantage at all in glass bedding the action in that stock... Just free float the hell out of the forearm and shoot it. If the accuracy is not better, the you will have to bed a pressure point back in the stock.

I would suggest a crisp 2.5 pound trigger and shoot it as it is...
 
I have

bedded mine with Marine Tex and so far so good. I have not seen any indications of it letting go. I roughed it up with 100 grit, used Rubbing Alcohol as a degreaser.

Like I said so far so good.

Calvin
 
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