Glass Bedding A Rifle

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Guys - I need your advice on this one. I have a Winchester Model 700 30-06 stainless synthetic featherweight rifle. Polished sear and Pachmyar decelerator recoil pad. I bought this rifle new and use only hand loads. The rifle shot very well for years until the factory recoil lug bedding fell off (soft bedding didn't adhere to stock). I have heard target shooters say you should only bed the back face of the lug. I am thinking of bedding the entire base of the lug (similar to factory) with Acraglass as this rifle will be in a gun scabbard on a quad where it will be exposed to lots of vibrations. I have also free floated the barrel. What do you recommend?
 
Front & back always and under.
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Bedding instructions

I did a project on glass bedding(Devcon steel) a little while ago. It was for a wood stock but it should be similar to the synthetic stock. With a synthetic you just need to roughen up the surfaces for the bedding material. You'll also use more glass bedding since you have larger voids to fill.
 
This is from the book of gunsmithing by Jack Mitchell. After removing the action from the stock it is important to remove any bedding compound that bears directly onto the front and bottom of the action recoil lug. The bearing surface should always be against the back of the lug.
 
oldfart said:
This is from the book of gunsmithing by Jack Mitchell. After removing the action from the stock it is important to remove any bedding compound that bears directly onto the front and bottom of the action recoil lug. The bearing surface should always be against the back of the lug.
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That's the conventional wisdom. Anyone care to suggest why this isn't good advice?
 
A rifle may shoot quite well with the lug fully bedded.. providing when you take it apart and reinstall it, you can get the lug to fully seat again... lugs are not exactly true in shape... and the smallest amount of scraping and friction can affect how it seats.

It is so much easier and more reliable to simply give the front, bottom and sides of the lug a little clearance. In doing so you take away one possibility of a problem that may occur. A little clearance in the right place does absolutely nothing to detract from accuracy and makes life so much easier.

I do it by using one layer of masking tape on the front, bottom and sides of the lug before applying release agent and bedding.... been doing it fairly successfully for 40 years.
 
Three layers of tape on the bottom of the lug and one on the front. If the recoil lug has tapered side, no tape. If the lug has straight sides, one layer on the sides.
 
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