Beding a plastic stock

[_CCCP_]

whitch brand of bedding is the best for a full plastic stock?

marine tex...devcon...etc...???

thanks

 

[gunasauras]

Doesn't really make a lot of difference. They'll all work quite well.....

 

[sunray]

Go buy an Acraglas kit and follow the directions on the box for your first bedding job. The material of the stock doesn't matter. However, you'll have to lightly sand the inside of your stock first.

 

[bobv]

I used Devcon Steel in my McMillan syn. stock on my Savage 10FP-LE2B worked out OK
Bob

 

[icehunter121]

I use acraglass gel all the time. Try this first though...make sure that the barrel is freefloated after bedding. The rifles i have done always shoot better free floated in a synthetic stock. It seems like the synthetics dont produce the same vibrations as wood and it will drive you nuts trying to make a synthetic shoot good if the barrel is bedded also...just my .02 cents worth...Ice...

 

[Papaneil]

I would suggest drilling a few anchoring holes in the bedding area for security.

 

[guntech]

Plastic stocks are a pain to bed... they were designed to simply tighten all the screws and let the stock bend around the metal...

You will have to remove a lot of stock so the barreled action can lay in the stock and be bottomed out without the stock "being squeezed open by the metal"...... Then you can remove it and put a lot of bedding compound where you want it. Let it cure without any screws inducing stress. Make sure the barrel is considerably free floated and centered in the barrel channel. All the bedding is going to do is be a spacer between the ill fitting plastic stock and the metal... it wont adhere well to the plastic stock so small holes into the stock and mechanically locking the bedding in place is advised.