Does the AICS stock require bedding?

I will say that this friend is a weapons tech in the military with a great deal of experience with small arms. So he has alot of credibility but I want a 2nd opinion from folks who are really into the precision game.
 
longarm21 said:
I will say that this friend is a weapons tech in the military with a great deal of experience with small arms. So he has some credibility but I want a 2nd opinion from folks who are really into the precision game.
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Ask Ian Robertson or someone else of his calibre. Most of the people posting on here are clueless.
 
Hi,

Had one
Shot it with no bedding and it was shooting great

Then I decided to bed it, and it improve by a little bit

Your call !! But I guess bedding it will decrease its resell value
 
Talk to people who do builds using the chassis to get the best informed info.
Pretty well all fiberglass stocks will benefit from bedding, but a precision machined chassis is a different animal.
Some good resources that will have factual information are;
ATRS
GA Precision
Surgeon Rifles
There are plenty more, but these guys all build good stuff and will have good input.
 
I've had three rifles with AICS - one 1.5 and two 2.0 - and retain one of them ( in a 2.0 ). None were bedded. I don't think it would hurt to bed but I don't believe that I could notice, or more accurately, take advantage of any improved accuracy. I am given to understand that this applies to all similar chassis-type set ups. If one was using a McMIllian or similar stock then I consider proper bedding to be essential.

My current rifle in AICS 2.0 shoots about 1.3" average at 300 yards - which I consider to be the edge of the performance envelope for that particular cartridge/rifle - with a best recorded 1.157" at that distance. Rifle is .223 usual ammo load using 75g AMAX best recorded using 80g Berger. Rifle here: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...t-Review-and-Range-Report-Semi-custom-Rem-223
 
Required, no.
Beneficial, yes.

I ran my AICS about a week then removed the chassis and found two rub marks in the V toward the rear mounting bolt. In my case, bedding was required.
 
Torking down propertly is what you need, spendingn more money for bedding will not help if you barrel are not accurate.
 
I shot an AICS for over 12 years..................never bedded it............just made sure the action was proper torqued on a regular basis.............BUT, it won't hurt to bed the action...........I was going to bed mine, but it kept shooting so well I didn't want to mess with a good thing...... ;)
 
I must own about 8 AICS system just in the pass, 4 of them still had, most of them were build with rem700PSS, some sps, some were on 721, 722. And not one I ever needed bedding, shoot good because of match barrel.
 
So if I were to do this, would the technique be the same or similar? Theres tons of posts about bedding 700's into HS, or A5 stocks but not one about AICS. I guess the same rules apply pretty much.
 
Some HS stock would require bedding to allow that action action to sit propertly, but majorityof the stock I have seen in the pass doesn't require.
 
Most of the big guys in the states like surgeon, GAP and blah blah blah, will just bed the rear tang area. I have had 2 bedded, shot great, one not, shot great. Has to do with torque, quality of action, quality of barrel. I have a KRG right now, surgeon action, just torqued, no bedding and it shoots amazing. Terry Cross has gone away from bedding and made a metal insert that is inletted into the stock and matches up to the contour of the action, very smart, apparently works great being as he has more work then time.
 
I have a 700 PSS chambered in .308. 24" barrel. This rifle is from the 90's when remington was in its hay day and it shoots VERY well, but I want to maximize its performance a bit at a time. Starting with stock and bedding job. Still debating buying an AICS or just bedding the HS i have now.
 
You can find out if your Hs stock require bedding at all, cutting a tube of aluminum or steel the same diameter as the action, with a some pain marker mark the aluminum tube, make sure is completly wet, and sat it down to the aluminum in the stock where the action rested, role it abit, take it out and observe if the marker stick to the aluminum evently. Otherwise Torking down evently from the start to finish will help.
 
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