Thread: Glass bedding pros and cons

If your rifle is able to shoot .6 MOA already with factory ammo, I would invest time and money into your (long range) shooting technique and practice which will be a future investment independent to the rifle.
And if you think you can out-shoot your current rifle going down that road, buy a better one with a better scope and get that bedded to find yourself on a totally different skill level.
0.6MOA @ 600m is 9cm. Lets say you get that down to a unrealistically 0.3MOA with bedding, that means 4.5cm @600m. In a 308 you get that variation with a wind change of only 1mph.

Personally I find the guy pulling the trigger has the way bigger influence vs a bedding job. But a bedding job is done quick, feels good and satisfies our need for action in a short time frame.

Originally Posted by 6x47

Here's one done in Marinetex the other day. I'd just pulled the action (a Barnard S) and about to start on some cleanup of fine details, not that there were many.



Marinetex is very hard and super stable with 0.01% shrinkage over a year. Many of the common ones can shrink by 3% which is NOT what you need

What did you use for a release agent?

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Regarding releasing agent question above - a liberal coating of car wax has worked fine for me.

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Regarding releasing agent question above - a liberal coating of car wax has worked fine for me.

Nice, I will remember that.

I use black (liquid) shoe polish and once it is dry I give it a dusting of graphite.


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Originally Posted by janleroux

Nice, I will remember that.

I use black (liquid) shoe polish and once it is dry I give it a dusting of graphite.


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Yep, the Yanks love Kiwi Shoe polish as a release agent.

Originally Posted by Steve123

What did you use for a release agent?

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Very wild guess here but given the quality of the job probably one of the 5111 series mould release agents.....

Originally Posted by zimmer

Yep, the Yanks love Kiwi Shoe polish as a release agent.

Yep, Kiwi neutral which you can't buy here. You'd think that Kiwi shoe polish was a NZ product but it isn't.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Very wild guess here but given the quality of the job probably one of the 5111 series mould release agents.....

Geez Zimmer, you must be bloody telepathic!!

Originally Posted by zimmer

Very wild guess here but given the quality of the job probably one of the 5111 series mould release agents.....

It looks better than my first attempt did. The rebate for the trigger is formed a lot better. Next time when it says use modelling clay or plasticene I won't substitute blue tack.
Can't wait till I can get somewhere to see if it's made a difference to the 103

I mucked round a fair bit in prep- made some custom blanking blocks for the stock trigger recess/ action trigger mount recess

There's a few things I'll do differently next time. The stock looked like some dude has used a woodpecker to do the inletting back in the factory. The magazine housing was angled foward as well so even though the furniture wax worked there was a bit of mechanical keying. Eventually got the action out and done a bit of easing with the dremel. Had to use bluetack instead of plasticene which didn't work out the best.

Ive always used a good coat of hornady one shot case lube
Has always worked well sometimes needs a light tap with a rubber hammer
But never Difficult