Hey guys, just a quick question about bedding. On a B&C stock with aluminium bedding blocks, do you mill out the block for the bedding material? I understand you have to grind out some of the stock itself. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
Bedding at B&C stock
- Thread starter frank223
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Sometimes the rear of the recoil lug needs to be milled back a hair... so the screws center in the holes with the bottom metal in place... wrap masking tape around the barrel to hold it in the center of the stock and bed the action with the action screws loose... with clearance on the front, sides and bottom of the recoil lug.
Take your dremmel and rough up the surface of the bedding block a bit. I just did one a couple months ago, and it definitely needed a little material removed. Don't go crazy and take a 1/4" out or anything, just enough to give whatever bedding compound you are going to use a surface to hang on to. Make sure you do some at the tang also, and somehwhat round out the lip of the recoil lug pocket.
To expand a bit on what guntech said. Don't do up the screws tight when you bed it as you will just bend the action into the same position as before bedding and probably have the same performance. The reason they need to be bedded it that the actions on factory rifles are not round and have been ground, polished by hand to a non perfect shape, just look at them. If they were perfect and the stock was perfect the plan would succeed, but they are not. You need to have some method so that the action can sort of float in the epoxy, in the correct position until the epoxy cures. The easiest but non perfect way is to put a clamp on the tang of the action and let the weight of the barrel pull the front down, easy with the clamp because it is very easy to flex the action, using long studs instead of screws and they must be centred in the holes as per guntech. Don't use surgical tubing as a clamp or wraps of tape, anything like this will bend the action very easily especially an action like a 700 or Savage etc with a big opening in the top and bottom.
I have trade secrets for setting up bedding jobs that I have never seen used elsewhere, one of these days I will take some pictures and publish it. It makes bedding perfect, repeatable and simple from start to finish whether bedding a factory gun or a gun going to the worlds. I have bedded thousands like this and I think I have almost figured it out, for any action, but I still learn on most jobs! I have said I will publish it before and I may actually get to it one of these days, real simple, if you want a challenge try to figure it out, let me know.
I have trade secrets for setting up bedding jobs that I have never seen used elsewhere, one of these days I will take some pictures and publish it. It makes bedding perfect, repeatable and simple from start to finish whether bedding a factory gun or a gun going to the worlds. I have bedded thousands like this and I think I have almost figured it out, for any action, but I still learn on most jobs! I have said I will publish it before and I may actually get to it one of these days, real simple, if you want a challenge try to figure it out, let me know.
