Messed up rifle bedding

[blacktailcentral]

Has anyone ever messed up bedding an action to their stock. I am currently in this situation and want to attempt again. Whats the best way to clean up the prior bedding material?
Thanks!

 

[Kaleb]

Dremel tool unless you have a mill. I don't so I dremel.

 

[Kauaihunter]

Dremel with various bits and sanding wheels plus elbow grease and sandpaper. Ask me how I know.

 

[blacktailcentral]

Any good tips for the actual bedding process?

 

[43.6N]

What type of action? And when you say messed up, what do you mean?

 

[Kauaihunter]

One of the biggest things to me is don’t rush it. Prep everything and make sure you’re ready prior to applying the epoxy/bedding compound.

 

[43.6N]

I really like bedding rifles.
But it’s all about the layup.
Liberal amounts of clear shoe polish as a release agent.
Wrap tape on the barrel to keep it centered.
Clay dam anywhere you don’t want epoxy to flow.
Use lots of acetone and q tips to clean up any seepage.
Only modest torque on the action screws while setting.

 

[Kaleb]

Hornady one shot works good too if you don't have any shoe polish handy. I try to keep shoe polish on hand but sometimes I run out. I always have case lube on hand.

 

[blacktailcentral]

What type of action? And when you say messed up, what do you mean?

Zermatt origin, action wasn’t square to stock

 

[43.6N]

Bummer to hear.
Dremel it out.
100% your second go around will be better.

Where do you think you went wrong?

 

[Wrench]

Put wraps of tape on the barrel at the foreend to center the barrel. Wd40 is the hot ticket for cleaning up devcon 10110.

IF you are doing a detachable magazine, pillars will help keep the height right which makes feeding accurate.

 

[blacktailcentral]

Bummer to hear.
Dremel it out.
100% your second go around will be better.

Where do you think you went wrong?

Saw people doing it a few different ways, i did it without the action screws threaded in. Which cause the action to not be square to the stock

 

[Ballcap]

A cheap air drives die grinder and carbide bits from harbor freight will make short work of the bad bedding.
I second the clear shoe polish. Use plumbers putty for dams. Electrical tape to center barrel and very end of tang to set height.
The die grinder will have you on the way to try #2 by tomorrow night just hold it tight so you don’t have to repair the stock too. No need to grind it all out, just make some notches to “key” the layers together. Watch ballistic research- Nathan Foster videos from NZ. He does excellent work!

 

[Jason Snyder]

Dremel it out and go to work.

Use bolt stop wrapped with tape to center the action screw holes.

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