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Bell and Carlson Medalist
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<blockquote data-quote="NW Hunter" data-source="post: 370742" data-attributes="member: 23024"><p>On my Medalist, the aluminum bedding block gives my stock stiffness. My kit from erniethegunsmithcom. came with stainless steel spacers of different thicknesses. These are in essence used as pillars to free float the action from the stock. My stock needed .050" of combined spacers between the stock and the action to get the action to free float (stock not touching the action at any point). It also took alot of grinding of the bedding block with a dremel tool to take down some high spots on the Bell and Carlson. </p><p>Once the action is free floated, it's just a matter of glass bedding your stock to your action. The spacers will now be glass embedded into the stock, acting like stock pillars. When tightening the stock down to action during glass bedding, Ernie told me to torque action screws to 35"/lbs. to keep action stress free.</p><p> </p><p>I can't speak for all stocks with aluminum bedding blocks, but my Bell and Carlson block had very rough machining done to it and needed this work done to make it shoot well. </p><p>Ed, pillar bedding a stock would probably get you the same end result if the fore-end is stiff enough to keep the barrel free floated when pressure is applied on the fore-end, either by your rest or with a bipod.</p><p> </p><p>Randy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NW Hunter, post: 370742, member: 23024"] On my Medalist, the aluminum bedding block gives my stock stiffness. My kit from erniethegunsmithcom. came with stainless steel spacers of different thicknesses. These are in essence used as pillars to free float the action from the stock. My stock needed .050" of combined spacers between the stock and the action to get the action to free float (stock not touching the action at any point). It also took alot of grinding of the bedding block with a dremel tool to take down some high spots on the Bell and Carlson. Once the action is free floated, it's just a matter of glass bedding your stock to your action. The spacers will now be glass embedded into the stock, acting like stock pillars. When tightening the stock down to action during glass bedding, Ernie told me to torque action screws to 35"/lbs. to keep action stress free. I can't speak for all stocks with aluminum bedding blocks, but my Bell and Carlson block had very rough machining done to it and needed this work done to make it shoot well. Ed, pillar bedding a stock would probably get you the same end result if the fore-end is stiff enough to keep the barrel free floated when pressure is applied on the fore-end, either by your rest or with a bipod. Randy [/QUOTE]
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