Full length bedding 10/22 barrel?

[manbearpig]

there are several mods to alleviate the barrel droop on heavy barreled 10/22s, from aftermarket V-blocks to a piece of foam tape near the tip of the barrel channel.

has anyone tried simply full length bedding the action/barrel in the stock? yes, free-floated a rifle barrel is better in most cases but this is a rimfire with a proportionately massive barrel and low-powered round, so how much of a factor can barrel harmonics possibly be?

any thoughts?

 

[Dr.Lector]

I'm guessing you are talking about the .920" bull barrel.
IMO, the bedding of the barreled action
(weather with pillars or not) is good untill
you remove/replace the barrel.
I don't know about other people,
but I change my 10/22 barrels pretty often,
so it wouldn't work for me.
If you want to alleviate that huge stress put
by the barrel into the receiver,
the simplest way is supporting the barrel
in the front of the stock.
If you want to go into so finnicky stuff as
full lenght barrel bedding, you should search
in the rimfirecentral archives.
Those psychos tryed amost everything.

 

[manbearpig]

thanks, ill look around there.

with a decent bull barrel shooting accurately on the gun i dont think ill be replacing it for many thousands of rounds. if i wanted another barrel id just buy another donor action and stock and build another 10/22

so im not worried about a semi-permanent solution like full length bedding... i just want to find the absolute best solution to the barrel droop problem.

 

[RePete]

I read an article a few years ago about full length bedding the barrel but free floating the action. This was done to remove the strain of the weight of the barrel from the action (alloy). It improved accuracy.

 

[manbearpig]

what id love to do is completely eliminate barrel/receiver movement. this would be quite easy to accomplish with a steel receiver, i wish we could just buy them as upgrades, ie: pay an additional ~$75 on top of the 10/22T price for an investment cast steel receiver.

aside from crafting a custom aluminum stock with a barrel clamp, i think full-length bedding might work. im going to give it a try, worst case scenario i see a wooden dowel and sandpaper in my future.

 

[22lr]

I've done barrel bedding/receiver floating job on my Savage 64B. I also had to make barrel-mounted scope rail, similar to those existing for 1022. It is now shooting some 3/4" groups at 50 yards - huge improvement over 3" groups. I do not think complete assembly bedding is very practical, good cleaning job entails removing barrel with these modern semi's, plus bedding receiver doesn't do anything if barrel is bedded already and scope mount is part of a barrel.