Stock bedding

[Pete L]

can anyone tell me is there any advantage of glass bedding a rifle about 1 inch in front of the recoil lug ?? basically the first inch of the barrel ??

[royinidaho]

From the single rifle I tried this on, twice.

Original barrel: Sporterweight douglas premium, 24"

Bedded the action/free floated the barrel: It shot well about 3/4MOA @ 100.

Bedded the barrel all the way to the end: Again it shot about 3/4 MOA but shot it at a lower velocity.

Free floated the last half of the barrel: Again it shot avout 3/4 MOA but at a higher velocity.

Did the same thing when I had it rebarreled w/a 27" Lilja #4 contour.

Got the same exact results except group size is .3 or .4 MOA range.

Stayed with the first half of the barrel channel bedded.

Mauser 98 Action - 270 Win.

Conclusion: Messing with bedding of any part of the barrel is pretty much a waste of time except its fun to play with once just to see.