Bedding a Sportered Swedish Mauser...

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So I'm reading the various threads on bedding with much interest as I'm in the middle of a project with my sporterized Swedish Mauser.

It has a plastic ramline stock and I have filled down the barrel channel in the stock to insure that it is no longer in contact with the barrel all the way to the action.

And while I did notice an improvement when I took it out to the range today from before the filing of the stock.

I found that the first 6 shots not bad but not as good as a 6.5x55 swede with hand loads should be IMHO. Even my full wood iron sighted Swede shot better with the same hand loads last fall.

I suspect that the barrel warmed up resulting in groups opening up quite a bit.

I'm wondering if I could benefit from one of those Miles Gilbert glass bedding kit from wholesale sports?

Our try mounting a brass wedge under the barrel near the end of the forend to provide upwards pressure?

Or scrap the whole project and look for a different stock, new barrel or even a different rifle, as I have limited time and money being working poor right now...sigh.

I feel I'm getting close to having a good hunting rig for this fall, but uhg...

Any thoughts?
 
I worked on one of those Ramline stocks and a Swede years ago and was not impressed. They are flimsy and needed bedding in the action to stiffen them up otherwise they flex the action. I find the best accuracy in a wooden or good fiberglass stocked Mauser is to bed the first 1" or so of the barrel too.

That Ramline also split down the middle on the bottom at the trigger guard to the front sling stud. Had to epoxy that whole mess.
 
First things first guys. Calum, Go to your local archery center and pick up some surplus arrow shafting. They will have a couple of diameters, you want the largest available. They usually have buckets of them by the way, they're the short lengths left over from trimming the shafts to length. You also want the aluminum/titanium shafts as well.
Now, trim the shafts to the length needed to make pillars for the rear and front trigger guard. Make up a small batch of epoxy, and using the receiver and trigger guard, glue in the pillars. Don't use to much epoxy, you only want enough to almost fill the pillar mount holes. Drill them to size, if necessary. I cut up and shred steel wool to use as a filler and mix it in with the epoxy. Put some shim material under the barrel to get enough clearance. Let it cure for a day and disassemble. This will give you a decent base to work from. Ram Line stocks, don't take epoxy very well. I drill small holes in the bedding channel and rough everything up as much as possible. I also gouge out a cross channel and put in an old piece of hacksaw blade, right behind where the recoil lug recess is. When all of that is finished, I glass bed as per normal procedure. I've seen complete bedding jobs pop right out of Ram Line stocks. They were never intended to be bedded with epoxy.

That is about the same amount of work required to properly bed any decent stock but with a few added steps. It's the only way I've been able to bed one to my satisfaction.

The material in Ram Line stocks is very temperature sensitive, it will warp, if one side is in the sun to long. They expand when they're cold and get quite sloppy when they're hot. They don't much like temperatures over 125F or below -20F.

I like synthetic stocks. I also like laminated stocks. I don't rally have a prefference between the two. I'm not a great fan of injected moulded stocks. The Ram Line is a good example of why not. That being said, with a bit of extra effort, the stock can be made to perform acceptably and give yeoman service for a low cost.
 
Good tip on the arrow shafts bearhunter. :)

Overall well I'm pretty tired of this stock anyway, the last owner did some crappy work on it and I'm wondering if it is trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. :D

Who in Canada offers a reasonably priced laminate hunting stock for my type of rifle? :)
 
Calum said:
Good tip on the arrow shafts bearhunter. :)

Overall well I'm pretty tired of this stock anyway, the last owner did some crappy work on it and I'm wondering if it is trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. :D

Who in Canada offers a reasonably priced laminate hunting stock for my type of rifle? :)
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Don't know about the laminated stocks but TradeEx lists some 96 Sporter stocks for sale. They also list some CG63 Stocks but I am not sure if they will work for your rifle. Ask Anthony he will know.
 
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