Hot glue as bedding compound....

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Yes guys, you read it!! My friends tell me that the rifle of his mother (a Win 70 post 64 .270) cannot shoot. 8 to 12'' group is usual. So, I say to come and we will look at the rifle.

As soon as I take her apart, I notice a ''bedding compound'' in the recoil lug area. Nice I said!! But.. It was hot glue!:eek::eek:

So, before blaming anything on a rifle, just look for this guy that, at one moment, put hot glue as bedding for your rifle!!!:D:D

I just wanted to share it.....lolll
 
sametwinnie said:
Yes guys, you read it!! My friends tell me that the rifle of his mother (a Win 70 post 64 .270) cannot shoot. 8 to 12'' group is usual. So, I say to come and we will look at the rifle.

As soon as I take her apart, I notice a ''bedding compound'' in the recoil lug area. Nice I said!! But.. It was hot glue!:eek::eek:

So, before blaming anything on a rifle, just look for this guy that, at one moment, put hot glue as bedding for your rifle!!!:D:D

I just wanted to share it.....lolll
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that is funny wonder if it worked for the first 3-4 rounds till glue melted. thanks needed a good laugh
 
It's a common bedding process with Winchester and Browning... and as long as you don't take the rifle apart and it dislodges, it seems to work not that bad. Better than some home bedding jobs I have seen.
 
guntech said:
It's a common bedding process with Winchester and Browning... and as long as you don't take the rifle apart and it dislodges, it seems to work not that bad. Better than some home bedding jobs I have seen.
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Seriously? Note to self, check Winchesters and Brownings for hot glue and chewing gum... actually, chewing gum would work better if it stayed dry...
 
The thermoplasitc seems to have worked pretty well. Certainly from a production standpoint it is a lot easier to do than using a catalysed resin.
 
guntech said:
It's a common bedding process with Winchester and Browning... and as long as you don't take the rifle apart and it dislodges, it seems to work not that bad. Better than some home bedding jobs I have seen.
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I've got a model 70 .243 and it has the same factory bedding done to it in the recoil lug area...shoots not bad though.
 
The hot glue bedding seems to deteriorate over the years so your rifle may need bedding some year.

As I said earlier factory accuracy seems to be fine with this method.
 
guntech said:
The hot glue bedding seems to deteriorate over the years so your rifle may need bedding some year.

As I said earlier factory accuracy seems to be fine with this method.
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I have a New Haven Stainless Classic that was "Hot Glued" from the factory. It worked well for a number of years but broke down eventually after taking off the stock a few times for cleaning. Easy fix to take out the old bedding and use what you want after, in my case epoxy.
 
Some would find taking that bedding out and putting 37 cents worth of epoxy in its place too much to handle.
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It's not hard to do, but if the gun was properly bedded at the factory, it wouldn't be necessary to do anything at all with the bedding.

I just bedded a Weatherby Vanguard MOA that had some crappy bedding as well. When the action was removed from the stock, part of the bedding stayed with the stock, and part came out with the action. This rifle took a little more effort though, because it didn't shoot that well with a free floated barrel, so I had to re install a pressure point in the stock. The rifle now shoots better than before it was disassembled.
 
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