Some work on my M14 / M305 stock

Guys,
I can't quite get over the notion that I'm dealing with a different stock than you are. The areas forward directly in front of the liner bolts is cut lower than the rails, and doesn't really fit under the metal at all. It's like it was deliberately made to float the front half of the action. The cuts which I take to be for anchoring the bedding compound are in approximately the same location where Grizzlypeg drilled his anchoring holes, plus under the trigger guard as well.Is this smaller area at the rear of the action sufficent to get the tension effect?

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that's prety interesting, nice pics btw
All those milled out locations will need to be bedded. Takes the guess work out of choosing where to carve out the stock. No instructions come with those stocks? I imagine grizzleypegs method would work well for you for bedding the action. To bedd those two trigger pads........ do this in a seperate operation once you have bedded the receiver and it has hardened.
this tricky cuz you don't want to seize the trigger group with excess bedding compound.
when you have the bedding compund in those tabs.... have a small U clip of 1/8 inch copper wire on hand. place this one end through saftey hole and other end holding trigger group by it's front bend. This should put the trigger group locking tip 1/4 inch from the locked position. This procedure is done with the receiver in the stock. Once set this combined with grizlleypeg's bedding instructions should give you fantastic results.
 
45ACPKING said:
I could scan and paste the kuhnhaussen pages but..... there is prolly some copywrite infringement by going down that road. Fulton sells the book for those who can find a way to get a copy outta them ( no non u.s. sales), relative stateside can order and send to you.... no laws against that.
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Or you could get it from Brownells.
 
I hope you can see past the fuzzy pictures, but not only are the rails not touching, all wood that could support bedding is removed in a separate cut. After putting slots for bedding compound in so many areas, its hard to imagine why they would deliberately remove the wood so the front couldn't be bedded. Unless, that is, that they didn't want it bedded in that area and the front half of the action was meant to be floated by design? At least on this pattern of stock. I could build dams,and build it up that way, but it sure seems like someone went out of their way to make that hard to do. If that is the case, could the rear half of the action's bedding be enough to hold barrel tension?


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No, the rear half can't hold the tension. I can't see how that could work. Its rearward of the point at which the receiver can pivot at the centre,and somethign has to hold the front of the receiver up. All the instructions I received on bedding said the critical points of contact were the rear horseshoe and the front rails. A gap in between not mattering, and for some reason desirable. The receiver pretty much pivots where the trigger assembly locks into it. Lacking a front bedding, I can't see anything holding the barrel up other than the actions two lugs binding in the not so tightly fitted stock liner.

I'm sure many people in the know could tell you exactly how that stock was meant to be bedded. Hungry, where are you?
 
there are two forward surface pads that the receiver beds to, one on each side..... my explaining is useless without pics.... so i won't try...... I'll instead try to work on some pics.
 
can you pretty much repeat the exact same process with a USGI fibreglass stock?

instead of routing/drilling out areas for the bedding just thoroughly degrease and roughen the areas to which the bedding compound needs to adhere?
 
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