BEDDING ACTION IN SYNTHETIC STOCK FREE

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BEDDING ACTION IN SYNTHETIC STOCK FREE

To check if free floating will help put a credit card or two if necessary between the barrel near the action so you can slide that dollar bill down between the stock and barrel. This can be hard to achieve with some of the flexible synthetic stocks. This pressure usually needs to be around seven pounds to be effective.

This means that there is a pressure pad near the end of the forarm putting some upward pressure on the barrel. Often there is some forend pressure on rifles. If your barrel is free floated it will slide down to about three inches from the action. Try sliding a dollar bill down between the barrel and the stock. There are a couple of things you can do to see if glass-bedding would even help.įirst check if the barrel is free-floated. Probably the least expensive route would be to find a factory wood take off and glass and piller bed it.įrankly for deer/elk/bear hunting your 06 is doing OK. Add a good recoil pad for 45.00, a set of sling swivels for $20.00 and I always get them inleted 1/16 inch oversize $20.00 for ease of glass-bedding and your into a stock you have to finish a couple of hundred bucks.

Usually Richards has 98 percent finished stocks for a little over a hundred bucks. Check out Boyds and my favorite Richards Micro-fit for styles. I do have some experience with these stocks and they take well to glass bedding. Expect to pay $300 to $500 for a good synthetic stock.Īnother avenue is a laminated stock. Start with the folks doing benchrest stocks and work your way down. I understand their quality has slipped, but their are several stock makers doing quality work. When I ran my shop I used to use Brown precision for synthetic stocks. This means spending some money for something more than the $89.00 plastic wonder that came with your gun. This is part of the reason your seeing aluminum bedding blocks incorporated into some of these synthetic stocks.īest I can say is if the accuracy of your 06 is not acceptable for your use (one to two inches are actually pretty good for a factory deer rifle) your going to need to think about restocking. They do not stick well to most of the plastic materials used in modern synthetic stocks. Most of the cast plastic stocks such as Remington and other sell are not.Īlmost all glass-bed products on the market are some sort of epoxy usually with a filler of chopped glass, glass beads or metal flakes/beads.

Some of the fibreglass and kevler stocks are glass-bed friendly. Well I've been glass bedding rifles for about 40 years now. I was one of the people who at the time thought it probably wasn't needed. The other question, and we discussed this on another thread in the rifle forum I think, is should bother having the barrel floated? The responses before were mixed if I recall correctly. I am also going to have the trigger adjusted to about 3.5-4 lbs but I am going to wait until after hunting season to do this because I have the rifle almost where I want it for now. But my question is can you glass bed synthetic stocks and if so is there any particular product that seems to work best on those type stocks? I think my pattern opening up may be a bedding issue more than a barrel issue. Now, let me preface my question by letting you guys know I am not a gunsmith at all and will need to have this work done for me if done at all. Once the barrel heats up at all the pattern widens to about 2'. I can put Core-Lokts and Fusions (165 gr) at about 1' to 1.5' for 3 shots.

Bedding action in synthetic stock