Ok i have a savage axis i used rockite to stiffen the stock i filled all the little holes in front of the recoil lug and behind it too. I made sure it was just the holes that got filled nothing got on the outside of the holes. Now i filled in between the recoil lug fron and back and the sides to help stiffen that up is that bad? The action and barrel nut will still sit done in there. Now how do you bed the action just put some epoxy or jb weld one the stock were the barrel not and and behind that and on the back were it rest on the action the. Bolt the action down and torque it let it cure and its now bedded? Im still learning on some of this stuff but fun to do it your self and to save money. Any help would be great.
Stiffing a stock and bedding it?
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varminter .223
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I have never bedded one but I have heard of guys using devcon. I personally being new to this would buy a bedding kit from midway or someplace to make sure I had the proper release agent to but on the barrel, recoil lug and action to make sure my gun would not eternally be one piece lol.
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Rough up the inletting area of the stock. Get two bolts from ace hardware that fit in the receiver bolt holes. Make sure they are long enough to stick out of the bottom of the receiver (you have to cut the heads off them. Screw them in the receiver. Get some kiwi shoe polish or some other release agent and put it on the receiver (thin coat only) where it will come in contact with the bedding material. Now smear the bedding material around on the roughened up area of the stock inlet. Push the receiver down into the material with the bolts going through the holes. I did forget one thing. Remove the trigger and plug all the holes with some sort of putty. If the bedding material gets into you trigger, it won't trig anymore. An alternative is to just bed the recoil lug. It helps a lot, but not as good as a full bed job.
DGW
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mgsgt's suggestion is a good one. Personally, I prefer to use JB Weld Kuick Set....not as strong as regular JB Weld, but for me easier to work with and doesn't run as much.
The Axis stock plastic design leaves a lot to be desired. You may be missing a problem with it and that is the overly large trigger guard part that also holds in the magazine. Please note how much of the wrist of the stock it occupies and its a thin wrist. Note how the rear of the trigger guard had a nub that sticks into the stock. Reads like you've dealt with flex problem from rear of action to front of the stock. However, from rear of trigger guard toward the butt of stock, you've done little. That wrist in the stock is very thin and trigger guard (which is part of the wrist area) has no good tight attachment to it and I think there is a definite flex in it. Chuckle, showed a new Axis owner at range with his rifle what I mean after he shot the rifle for the first time and had mentioned to me seems to be a flex to the stock. I rested the butt of his rifle on a shooting bench while holding the rifle just in front of the action. I then used the forefinger of my free hand and pushed down on the wrist area behind the action. Had him watch the joint of the rear of trigger guard with the stock. Chuckle, he noticed how the joint spread from my fore finger presure.....and I didn't exactly exert much pressure with my forefinger. I came to the conclusion about this problem after buying an Axis when it was called the Edge, several years ago. I own maybe 25 scoped rifles, most with a 24X or higher scope on them. The Axis was the first rifle I'd ever shot, that I could watch the elevation cross hair of scope climb up to a 1/2" on a 100 yd target while pulling its heavy trigger, while shooting from benchrest. I too, tried filling the cavities in stock, but never came up with a good solution to its flex in area where trigger guard joined the rifle.
Good Luck....I'm sure you are smarter than me. I solved the flex problem back then by cutting out the receiver portion of the Axis stock, flattening its sides and building a wood stock around it.
The Axis stock plastic design leaves a lot to be desired. You may be missing a problem with it and that is the overly large trigger guard part that also holds in the magazine. Please note how much of the wrist of the stock it occupies and its a thin wrist. Note how the rear of the trigger guard had a nub that sticks into the stock. Reads like you've dealt with flex problem from rear of action to front of the stock. However, from rear of trigger guard toward the butt of stock, you've done little. That wrist in the stock is very thin and trigger guard (which is part of the wrist area) has no good tight attachment to it and I think there is a definite flex in it. Chuckle, showed a new Axis owner at range with his rifle what I mean after he shot the rifle for the first time and had mentioned to me seems to be a flex to the stock. I rested the butt of his rifle on a shooting bench while holding the rifle just in front of the action. I then used the forefinger of my free hand and pushed down on the wrist area behind the action. Had him watch the joint of the rear of trigger guard with the stock. Chuckle, he noticed how the joint spread from my fore finger presure.....and I didn't exactly exert much pressure with my forefinger. I came to the conclusion about this problem after buying an Axis when it was called the Edge, several years ago. I own maybe 25 scoped rifles, most with a 24X or higher scope on them. The Axis was the first rifle I'd ever shot, that I could watch the elevation cross hair of scope climb up to a 1/2" on a 100 yd target while pulling its heavy trigger, while shooting from benchrest. I too, tried filling the cavities in stock, but never came up with a good solution to its flex in area where trigger guard joined the rifle.
Good Luck....I'm sure you are smarter than me. I solved the flex problem back then by cutting out the receiver portion of the Axis stock, flattening its sides and building a wood stock around it.
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