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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
[Re: ImTheReasonDovesMourn]
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02/12/19 04:22 PM
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I extend the bedding about two inches in front of lug on all rifles. Never had a problem with them walking when heated, that's why they're bedded in the first place.
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 04:29 PM
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Just in the interest of confusion, some of these flimsy stocks get flimsier if you add epoxy or whatever else to the forend to make it stiff. The problem can be that making the forend stiff enough to not flex, makes it a lever that flexes the stock material aft of the lug; usually around the magazine well. If there's a point to this, it may be that bedding a rifle isn't necessarily one-size-fits-all and there's more than one way to do it. I would not bed in the forearm, and NOT bed the action area, for the very reason you mentioned. Working on the forearm is secondary to the action bedding, IMO. Bedding the action doesn't help a whole lot when the side of the stock pull it away from the action when there is pressure on the forend. There are many stocks that just cannot tolerate a bipod. Which is why I have lots of money invested in quality, stiff forearm stocks. The more flexible ones have to be shot off a large front bag supporting the rifle from trigger guard to 12" out. Bedding the action area, on those will not hurt.
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 05:24 PM
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I extend the bedding about two inches in front of lug on all rifles. Never had a problem with them walking when heated, that's why they're bedded in the first place. Is the barrel bedded these 2", and resting on the bedding material? Or is the bedding extended these 2" but free floated?
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 06:51 PM
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it's kinda funny redneck, i also had a rod stiffener in mind but wouldn't know if anyone has tried it or not
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 07:07 PM
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it's kinda funny redneck, i also had a rod stiffener in mind but wouldn't know if anyone has tried it or not I believe Buzz has
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 07:58 PM
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I extend the bedding about two inches in front of lug on all rifles. Never had a problem with them walking when heated, that's why they're bedded in the first place. Is the barrel bedded these 2", and resting on the bedding material? Or is the bedding extended these 2" but free floated? The barrel is bedded, only about 1/2 of the chamber area.
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 08:36 PM
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/12/19 10:12 PM
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it's kinda funny redneck, i also had a rod stiffener in mind but wouldn't know if anyone has tried it or not I feel like I got this idea off of someone on youtube. i was actually thinking plate/strip would be better and align it vertically to the centerline of the stock. Furthermore, if you can find some way to put holes or perforate the plate/strip, then it would provide additional points for mechanically locking the stiffening steel to the bedding and the bedding mechanically to the stock Totally read this article and highly considered full vs limited points of contact. Once again as a layman shooter but has some formal structural training... This particular example and action has 3 contact points. If one assumes all 3 pillars/holes/support points are active and inline, then I would fully bed. And by that logic extend the bedding footprint to match a harmonics I can make consistent makes sense. Otherwise no, if there are only 2 supports, then i want to minimize contact between stock and barreled action to the smalle footprint i can make. Rationale: the 3 pillar action are all inline, therefore the problem often referred to as statically indeterminant. The third support causes this. So if I only had 2 supports (which I do on my savage), then I do NOT want a full length bed in fact I want to try to minimize contact to to equally distributed load at the identical footprint but each connection point as strong as possible. If there were more than 2 supports, ie statically indeterminant, then I'd do the full length bedding.
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Re: Bedding in front of recoil lug?
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02/13/19 12:22 AM
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My BR guns that weren't glued in were bedded in front of the lug a couple of inches. They shot as good as anyone's though I didn't always. Never had any consistency issues. As long as he doesn't bed the bottom of the lug, you should be GTG. The nice thing is. If you do have issues, 5 minutes will remove the bedding in front of the lug and you can see if thats what it was!
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