Win Mod 70 stock screw tightening

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tabs4u

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Hi Everyone,

I just finished putting my Win Mod 70 Classic .300 WSM in a new Boyds salt and pepper laminated stock and I am trying to get it seated a a tight a possible and want to make sure the sequence I am using is the best. Its a 2 piece floor plate with 3 screws. What I have been doing and been told was to tighten the screw on the recoil lug first and as tight as can be then the screw at the back on the tand and the middle screw last and not as tight as the first 2. I have followed this procedure but I am finding that the floor plate does not seat fully in the floor plate release, it only goes in about half way.

any ideas or tipes would be greatly appreciated.
 
What I do with my Model 70's is tighten the front lug screw as tight as possible, tighten the centre screw hand tight as well and then tighten the tang screw hand tight , then back it off 1/2 to 1 full turn. You may fing you'll have to fit your floor plate release latch slightly due to variations in thickness between your old and new stock (the old stock is likely slightly thicker in that area)...I had to do that with mine when I bedded it...
 
tabs4u,
Tighten the front screw tight, then with the floorplate closed and latched tighten the rear. You are only looking for snug here, over tightening splits pistol grips. The middle screw should only be tight enough to not come loose. Tightening it down bends the action. Since there is a stock change involved there may be a tiny bit of wood removal needed to get everything sitting right.
 
I would also recommend positioning the rifle vertical with the butt on the bench. This helps keep the butt against the stock and helps prevent cracks!!
 
Dogleg said:
tabs4u,
Tighten the front screw tight, then with the floorplate closed and latched tighten the rear. You are only looking for snug here, over tightening splits pistol grips. The middle screw should only be tight enough to not come loose. Tightening it down bends the action. Since there is a stock change involved there may be a tiny bit of wood removal needed to get everything sitting right.
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Never tighten the middle screw and never tighten it before the front and rear, this sequence is very important.
bigbull
 
I snug the front screw fairly tight, then with the floorplate closed and latched I snug up the rear screw, then I open the floorplate and with a little blue loctite on the middle screw, install and tighten it up quite lightly. The blue loctite will cure and hold it there. I found tightening the rear screw with the floorplate latched help line the floorplate and latch better...

If the action seems to move around when you are tightening screws, it is not bedded correctly.
 
It really sounds like you have to deepen the inletting for the trigger guard. If it is not seating to the stock line that would be the case. The previous advice you have received on tightening the screws is correct.
 
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