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How tough is it to bed a stock?
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<blockquote data-quote="NesikaChad" data-source="post: 327351" data-attributes="member: 7449"><p>IMO a good bedding job is the most rewarding, nerve wracking, tedious, and fun job a guy can do to a gun. A close second is threading/chambering a barrel.</p><p></p><p>That being said its a job best done once and only once as reworks are always a pain in the arse.</p><p></p><p>As a practice I do not bed a stock until the barreled action is 100% complete. The only exception to that is if it is getting plated, coated, or blued. I bed them first as none of these add enough film thickness to get worked up over.</p><p></p><p>So, I'd advocate leaving the stock alone until the barreled action is 100% complete. Worst case scenario:</p><p></p><p>You've bedded this thing and then ship it off to get the action trued up and a new barrel installed. The smith has a big woops and crashes a tool into the receiver ring while facing/threading the action. Now you have to get a new receiver and bed the stock all over again.</p><p></p><p>If it's worth doing right it's worth doing ONCE.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helped.</p><p></p><p>C</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NesikaChad, post: 327351, member: 7449"] IMO a good bedding job is the most rewarding, nerve wracking, tedious, and fun job a guy can do to a gun. A close second is threading/chambering a barrel. That being said its a job best done once and only once as reworks are always a pain in the arse. As a practice I do not bed a stock until the barreled action is 100% complete. The only exception to that is if it is getting plated, coated, or blued. I bed them first as none of these add enough film thickness to get worked up over. So, I'd advocate leaving the stock alone until the barreled action is 100% complete. Worst case scenario: You've bedded this thing and then ship it off to get the action trued up and a new barrel installed. The smith has a big woops and crashes a tool into the receiver ring while facing/threading the action. Now you have to get a new receiver and bed the stock all over again. If it's worth doing right it's worth doing ONCE. Hope this helped. C [/QUOTE]
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