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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[CBB1]

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.

I heard this several times and it did not work for me! I now have a rifle that is bedded to the stock instead of a stock bedded to the action. In other words, when it finally broke loose all the epoxy stayed on the action and broke from the stock. I said F it, bolted it back together and it shoots good.


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[Mtnmilsurp]

My last epoxy bedding job was the easiest by dividing it into two rounds. I first just did a front and rear to fix the action for depth and alignment then a second round of bedding to fill in all the rest. Search Rokslide for DIY Rokstok in Maple to see photos.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Just carve it out and do it again. Cordless diegrinder and a fatty carbide make quick time of it.

 

[SloppyJ]

Go get some 1/4"-28 all thread, some washers, and some nuts. Screw those in the bottom of your action and then use that to line up the action to drop it in. Add the washers and nuts and just moderately snug down the action to the stock. Be sure to put your release agent on the all thread as well.

Wrap tape around the barrel until there is an ever so small amount of tension in the barrel channel when you put the action in the stock. This will center the barrel.

I also use a dremel to drill small little bumps out in the stock where the bedding compound is going to go. This gives it more surface area to bite.

I've never messed one up and all of them have turned out great. Instead of the modeling clay which is a bitch to remove completely, use playdoh or even silly putty.

I've never done a before and after test on accuracy but using good stocks (manners, mcmillan), the rifles I've bedded are my most accurate. My 300prc amazes me every time I shoot groups with it. Maybe it's just a good barrel, but I continue to bed my rifles.

 

[TradLife406]

Haha... glued grandpas German mark v together... I'm not allowed to bed my stocks anymore.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

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.

No it does not. I've glued actions into stocks repeatedly with one shot, and if you use too much it creates channels and surface imperfections in the epoxy.

I documented my stock mod process here, pretty sure I showed messing up, grinding it out, and going again. The big this to remember is that you have to redo all of it, you can't just do I the front or the rear, the epoxy will flow into the previously good area and you'll get to do it a third time.

Thread 'How I Modify My Tikka Factory Stocks'

Aug 10, 2023

This is the start to finish process I use on my tikka factory stocks to help them have a consistent POI and improve shootability. None of this is completely new information, but there are a few unique things I do, and this is a consolidation post.

This is stuff that I'm capable of doing to my personal possessions - if you try this and mess up your own stuff, that is on you. Step 1 is basically fool proof, even if you quit halfway through the stock will still function. The rest of the steps, once you start, your stock will not function until the step is finished.

Step 1: Free Float
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