PILLAR BED 788

ilmo

ilmo

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I just got a new to me 788 22-250. I have pillar bedding aluminun stock that i will need to cut to fit to length.

Shoud I try to contour the top of the pillar bedding to match the diameter of the 788 receiver? it is bigger diameter than a 700 receiver. or leave the top flat; or cut a v notch in the top of the pillar?

anybody have a you tube i can watch or any posts that will help me do this project?
Thanks!
R
 
Trying for a perfect fit would take special skills and tooling. Flat and flush is what most do. Let the bedding fill the gap so that only a small line of the pillar is showing.

Bedding videos
 
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All you are trying to accomplish is to eliminate compression of the wood, flat top pillars work very well for this application. Many years ago, I used Copper tubing for pillars, won a bench rest match with a wood 40x BR stock in 22 PPC with it, .189 agg(five 5 shot groups average and they did not count the warm up match that was an .069.

A word of advise, on the front of the 788 Action there is an indention, fill that indention with modeling clay or tape over the top of it or it may pull out a hunk of bedding material, which makes removal of the action from the stock a lot more difficult.
 
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