Best way to add forend pressure

Originally Posted By: Jack RobertsA good bedding job must be done in two stages because the bedding compound shrinks and it shrinks more where it is thicker. Bed it once to get it close, then scrape just a couple thousandths off and bed it again.

Jack

Completely unnecessary, maybe years ago before the latest and greatest bedding compounds were developed but not so much anymore. For the do it yourself guy at home, this would be a for sure way to really screw it up. Most the bedding material we buy today is fairly thick and is designed to be used in one application. It would be real difficult to go back and put a second layer on top of the existing one especially when lots of guys are only skim bedding over an aluminum block to start with.

Roger,
Your going to have to remove everything you've put in there previously and redo it. I use a couple of long crews in place of my action screws to locate the action thru the holes in the stock. I cover them in tape and some shoe polish.

Before getting out the messy stuff I also put a few wraps of electrical tape around the barrel out near the end of the stock. The number of wraps depends on the space between the barrel and stock. You want just enough to let the barrel fit in the stock but not move around. It helps center the barrel and support it once your bedding has been applied so the back of your action doesn't get lifted because of the weight of the barrel pulling it down.

Do everything else as you have done before. When I place the barreled action into the bedding I put a few wraps of electrical tape around the stock/action to hold it down tight in place. Clean up excess bedding and let it set overnight.
 
Originally Posted By: Roger LondonI have a model 70 extreme weather that has almost sent me to the loony bin. I think I finally have a load that it likes, then it all falls apart again and I'm getting tired of burning powder and bullets to try and find something it likes. I really like the gun or it would have done headed down the road. Out of 6 factory loads and 3 different component bullets and 6 different powders I was about done. This stuff is too expensive and too hard to get to keep throwing it at this rifle. So out of desperation today, I put some pressure under the barrel with some plastic shims and, by golly, the loads that were floating around 3.5" suddenly dropped to 1.25". I used some old insurance ID cards that I had that are about the thickness of a credit card placed 3 thick. So now that it appears to need some forend pressure. It was free floated from the factory with a fluted sporter contour barrel and I'm thinking maybe it just isn't stiff enough to be free floated. So what is the best way to add forend pressure and make it permanent? I would assume bedding epoxy would be best, but how do you get it to the right thickness, applying adequate pressure? Or can the shims be trimmed and epoxied in with say, plastic welder epoxy?

Back in the day, Target rifles had adjusting screws in the forearm. Go the Brownell's or MidwayUSA and watch a video on bedding.
 
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