Anyone bed their muzzleloader?

[<cascadehunter>]

I’ve never bedded any rifle, let alone a MZ. But as I re-assembled my Knight mountaineer last night I thought: with its rough wood inlet and one lonely action screw, surely it could benefit from bedding?
Anybody done it? Any appreciable improvement to consistency? Probably just a silly rabbit hole that doesn’t need to be gone down but I’m curious.

 

[Billy Goat]

I have a smokeless built off a Remington, bedded it.


It's not going to hurt anything.

 

[ElDiablito]

I’ve bedded a bunch of my muzzies.

 

[FrontierGander]

All of my sidelock muzzleloaders are bedded.

 

[DMuzz8]

Just did my first ever bedding job, and it happened to be on a muzzleloader. I will be doing more

 

[kjw]

Bedded my cva paramount.

 

[dznnf7]

Yes, absolutely. The more recoil a rifle has the more it will benefit from tight and precise bedding, both in short-term accuracy and long term durability. That puts muzzleloaders right in the target population for bedding despite being "short range" rifles.

 

[<cascadehunter>]

Thanks all, you have inspired me to take the plunge. I am both terrified and excited for the results. Guides/write ups regarding muzzles seem to be few and far between. Will post results

 

[<cascadehunter>]

I think this went alright for my first try at bedding. I read a ton of write ups and made an attempt. It seemed okay, but there were a number of things I wished I’d done differently so I ground it all out and gave it a second shot. This time came out better I feel. EXTREMELY tight fit. Also free floated the barrel and opened the ramrod channel up so that it does not contact.