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Bedding question
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<blockquote data-quote="archangel485" data-source="post: 1996421" data-attributes="member: 97905"><p>I'll say I think it's fine and done properly. I have read quite a bit on forums as I was wanting to bed a few rifles myself, and it seems most say only the back of the recoil lug should contact the bedding (no sides, not the front, not the bottom). So when I bedded those rifles that's how I did it, and they all shot phenomenally well. What really cements the idea that you only want the back of the lug contacting the stock for me is looking at chassis. If you look at the popular chassis available (they say no bedding required) the only place where the recoil lug contacts the chassis is in the middle of the lug on the back of the lug. They generally have a slight cut on the sides that go behind the recoil lug making it where the back side of the sides of the recoil lug don't contact, just right in the center. </p><p></p><p>I think you discovered the issue which is the fact your action screws weren't torqued down. That would definitely mess up your repeatability.</p><p></p><p>Here is a picture of the popular bravo chassis, you can see how the recoil lug area is cut, in my mind the only reason to have this additional cut towards the back is to ensure the sides don't touch at all. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]218542[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archangel485, post: 1996421, member: 97905"] I'll say I think it's fine and done properly. I have read quite a bit on forums as I was wanting to bed a few rifles myself, and it seems most say only the back of the recoil lug should contact the bedding (no sides, not the front, not the bottom). So when I bedded those rifles that's how I did it, and they all shot phenomenally well. What really cements the idea that you only want the back of the lug contacting the stock for me is looking at chassis. If you look at the popular chassis available (they say no bedding required) the only place where the recoil lug contacts the chassis is in the middle of the lug on the back of the lug. They generally have a slight cut on the sides that go behind the recoil lug making it where the back side of the sides of the recoil lug don't contact, just right in the center. I think you discovered the issue which is the fact your action screws weren't torqued down. That would definitely mess up your repeatability. Here is a picture of the popular bravo chassis, you can see how the recoil lug area is cut, in my mind the only reason to have this additional cut towards the back is to ensure the sides don't touch at all. [ATTACH type="full"]218542[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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