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REMINGTON VLS.308?
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<blockquote data-quote="milanuk" data-source="post: 52523" data-attributes="member: 376"><p>Keith,</p><p></p><p>Pillar bedding is where you bore out the holes for the actions screws to accept (relatively) large metal tubes, or pillars. The idea is that when you repeatedly tighten and loosen the action screws in a wood stock, even a laminate, the wood fibers are compressed, and possibly even crushed. So w/ the pillars, you are tightening down to where the action screws are sucking the stock to the gun, but the screws are pulling the pillar up to the action, or a floor plate to the pillar to the action. The pillars are epoxied or bedded into the stock, so they are not going anywhere. Basically makes for a consistent, repeatable, metal to metal fit. Add to that having the rest of the action bedded so that the cylindrical portion of the action, and the rear of the recoil lug, etc. are making 100% contact, and you have a solid, even foundation for your rifle, that should result in the stock fitting your barrelled action like a glove.</p><p></p><p>Brownells carries the pillars, I think from Score-High gunsmithing, among others. Some are 'adjustable', in that instead of having to get ones that are too long, and trim to fit, they screw out to the desired length, and then bed them into the stock permanently.</p><p></p><p>HTH,</p><p></p><p>Monte</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milanuk, post: 52523, member: 376"] Keith, Pillar bedding is where you bore out the holes for the actions screws to accept (relatively) large metal tubes, or pillars. The idea is that when you repeatedly tighten and loosen the action screws in a wood stock, even a laminate, the wood fibers are compressed, and possibly even crushed. So w/ the pillars, you are tightening down to where the action screws are sucking the stock to the gun, but the screws are pulling the pillar up to the action, or a floor plate to the pillar to the action. The pillars are epoxied or bedded into the stock, so they are not going anywhere. Basically makes for a consistent, repeatable, metal to metal fit. Add to that having the rest of the action bedded so that the cylindrical portion of the action, and the rear of the recoil lug, etc. are making 100% contact, and you have a solid, even foundation for your rifle, that should result in the stock fitting your barrelled action like a glove. Brownells carries the pillars, I think from Score-High gunsmithing, among others. Some are 'adjustable', in that instead of having to get ones that are too long, and trim to fit, they screw out to the desired length, and then bed them into the stock permanently. HTH, Monte [/QUOTE]
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