Velvet
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Hello Namibguy
I agree with what they suggest in previous messages, but I recommend that you skim and pillar bedding. Also, that you stiffen the forearm using epoxy plus the addition of some other element, but we will see it in detail.
The first thing is to get the pillars. I give you a picture and a scheme with measurements, so you can do it yourself, or go to a workshop where they can turn these two pieces of aluminum. As you will see, they are simple and easy to do. These are the ones I've used on other Rem700s I've tuned with excellent results.
I tell you how I would do the whole job, knowing that there are other ways to do it, and that this is not the only one, but that it has given me excelent results.
Assuming you already have the pillars, the steps, roughly, would be the following: (we can see later how to do each step in detail).
1) Skim bed the action including the recoil lug. This step will allow the action to be well located and focused on the stock. That is, you do not change heights or change the location of screws or anything unusual. You simply remove some material from the stock, so that you achieve a suitable epoxy thickness.
With this, we know that the action will always be located in the same factory location, without changing heights, angles, or rotating it.
You do not need to do the full action bedding in this step, it is enough that the two areas of the action screws are done. Then you can complete all the action if you want.
If you want to do the complete bedding in one step, the better.
2) Place the pillars. You are simply looking for a drill bit with a diameter greater than the pillar, so that there is a good amount of epoxy between it and the stock.
Here is a very important step, which is to fix the pillars to the action with a threaded rod and tightened to it with a nut. This assures us that they are perfectly square and making firm contact. You put epoxy on both the pillars and the hole made in the action, and you present barreled action in place.
To adjust, you only need to tighten with tightly adjusted elastic bands. Remember that the skim bed we made before will not allow the action to move or change position.
3) Complete the skim bedding if you did not complete it in the previous step.
4) Stiffen the forearm: you simply fill the empty cells it presents with epoxy. You can drill between cells, so that the epoxy unifies them.
This is a good time to place picatinny rails, or QD cups, etc., so the through bolts are embedded in the epoxy.
With this simple job, you are going to get the most out of your plastic stock.
With the right load, and doing your part as a shooter, you will be sub-moa for sure.
I hope my suggestions serve you.
Best regards
V
PS: There are photos of work done in Rem700 and Tikka, but they serve so that you can see the process.
I agree with what they suggest in previous messages, but I recommend that you skim and pillar bedding. Also, that you stiffen the forearm using epoxy plus the addition of some other element, but we will see it in detail.
The first thing is to get the pillars. I give you a picture and a scheme with measurements, so you can do it yourself, or go to a workshop where they can turn these two pieces of aluminum. As you will see, they are simple and easy to do. These are the ones I've used on other Rem700s I've tuned with excellent results.
I tell you how I would do the whole job, knowing that there are other ways to do it, and that this is not the only one, but that it has given me excelent results.
Assuming you already have the pillars, the steps, roughly, would be the following: (we can see later how to do each step in detail).
1) Skim bed the action including the recoil lug. This step will allow the action to be well located and focused on the stock. That is, you do not change heights or change the location of screws or anything unusual. You simply remove some material from the stock, so that you achieve a suitable epoxy thickness.
With this, we know that the action will always be located in the same factory location, without changing heights, angles, or rotating it.
You do not need to do the full action bedding in this step, it is enough that the two areas of the action screws are done. Then you can complete all the action if you want.
If you want to do the complete bedding in one step, the better.
2) Place the pillars. You are simply looking for a drill bit with a diameter greater than the pillar, so that there is a good amount of epoxy between it and the stock.
Here is a very important step, which is to fix the pillars to the action with a threaded rod and tightened to it with a nut. This assures us that they are perfectly square and making firm contact. You put epoxy on both the pillars and the hole made in the action, and you present barreled action in place.
To adjust, you only need to tighten with tightly adjusted elastic bands. Remember that the skim bed we made before will not allow the action to move or change position.
3) Complete the skim bedding if you did not complete it in the previous step.
4) Stiffen the forearm: you simply fill the empty cells it presents with epoxy. You can drill between cells, so that the epoxy unifies them.
This is a good time to place picatinny rails, or QD cups, etc., so the through bolts are embedded in the epoxy.
With this simple job, you are going to get the most out of your plastic stock.
With the right load, and doing your part as a shooter, you will be sub-moa for sure.
I hope my suggestions serve you.
Best regards
V
PS: There are photos of work done in Rem700 and Tikka, but they serve so that you can see the process.
