Glass Bedding/free floating?

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Slipery

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I was just curious about glass bedding and free floating. I know that they both increases the accuracy of the gun. Although I am not sure if you can do both together? How viable is either for a .270 bolt? Can it be done for any gun?
Also, what kind of costs are you generally looking at. I assume it would have to be done at a local gunsmith? I just don't know much about either.

Thanks
 
I'm by no means a gunsmith but I believe you just glass bed the action/reciever. Brownells has the stuff you need for that as well as many gunshops. It can be a do-it-yourself project. Free-floating is making sure the barrel does not make any contact with the forend ahead of the action. Use a slip of paper, business card or whatever & slide it from the muzzle to the action. If the paper doesn't slide through, remove material at the contact point/s until it does. Another DIY project.

If you do it yourself the price should be fairly cheap.
 
typically you bed the action and free float the barrel.

beding means you put some compound in the stock like devcon, fiberglass etc, this makes the stock and the action 100% true mating surface, all parts touch.

free floating is making sure the barrel doesnt touch anywhere
 
as far as i know you can do both together on some guns, if i recall there were instructions on how to free float a 10/22, free floating is, as far as i know, gun specific...

Bedding may be done on your own (just do your reading first), or by a gunsmith. bedding may be done for any gun, but how effective it will be is really gun specific.

any of the pro's care to correct/elaborate on my understanding?

Cheers,
Payam
 
Glass Bedding/free floating

i have done about a dozen bedding and floating jobs on a variety of rifles and had really good results....the way is to bed the recoil lug and free float from the lug forward,if you have any questions pm me back and ill answer what i can and god bless
 
Well to be honest, I have very little experience and very little skill involved in doing things like this. I am really not a handyman kind of guy. Perhaps it is an easier procedure then I am imagining though.

Does anyone know what the cost would be to get this done at a gunsmith? I know that I have a local gunsmith here in Ottawa. It is actually on the street I am currently on right now (I am in school).

Thank you very much for all your posts.

IBANGMETAL, is there some sort of comprehensive guide that you used when you started doing this? or did you just kind of figure it out yourself?
 
SLIPERY: Do a search on google for HOWTO Bed a rifle, it isn't hard. There are expensive ways to do it and cheap ways to do it, some of the expensive ways work really well and last a long time and some don't. Same goes for the cheap ways.

It's pretty hard to screw up on a simple rifle, just follow the publishers instructions. I know a lot of people do it with autobody epoxy and a layer of thin plastic.

This forum is useful for this type of thing but GOOGLE is great for finding pictorials of how to do it.
 
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