stock bedding won't release

If you find a rifle that will not come apart after you have removed all the action bolts I have found it easy if you sit in a chair with the rifle laying across your lap, place a t shirt on the bottom of the barrel to protect the finish and give the bottom of the barrel a whack with a soft mallet while holding the stock fore end in your other hand. It should drop right out.

Like this guy does it half wad down the thread:
http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...topics/8790716/Glass_bedding_a_Winchester_mod
 
Hi Guys:
I appreciate all the helpful suggestions but I learned a long time ago not to force things. Lucky I stopped to ask here or I would have done damage. Once the action separated from the stock I could see there were in fact 3 bedding jobs. 2 real & 1 ????
An original first skim coat of some sort that runs the full length of the fore-stock, then a glass bedding around the recoil lug action and magazine well and finally up towards the fore-stock someone added what appears to be a softer rubbery type glob ....... that's what could be seen oozing out. I'll attached some pics tonight.
The trigger guard and mag well are apparently permanently bonded in place it would appear.
 
Here's a few interior shots. You can see multiple beddings. An original skim coat full length then the glass/epoxy? around the action. Finally a blob of softer stuff that is what we saw oozing out!







 
Posting a follow up on an older thread from this year........

Boltonscouter, did you shoot the Parker Hale? I'm wondering how well it shot considering the glass bedding and free floating barrel?
I have recently acquired a PH CIL-972 in .270. It looks to be the same vintage as yours, early to mid 70's, has the DBM and the original PH furniture.

From my research on the PH rifles, they are supposed to be good shooters. I also discovered that PH did not free float the barrels on these rifles but rather left a little nub of wood on the forestock as a barrel pressure point right around the location of the front swivel stud. IIRC, some of the target models and varmit models did come free floated from the factory.

On another note, mine too has a pin in the mag lever release that needs to be removed before I can remove the action from the stock. Sometime in it's life, that pin was ?lost? by a previous owner and replaced with a roll pin, and that roll pin it tight, tight, and I am struggling to get it out without damaging the pin hole.

If you're still following your thread, lets hear how your PH shoots!
 
Id be interested to know as well, Ive have inherited my grandfathers alpine company of england(parker hale) doesnt shoot poorly but would be interested in bedding it.
 
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