Thread: My Shrunken Wood... need advice on No 4 Enfield.

I would not call this stage one and stage 2 myself.

So the top bedding is military bedding with 3~5lbs of pressure on the nose bed. If you want to shoot in service rifle as far as I am aware this is the only approved bedding method.

The so called stage 2 is but one option for target bedding with about 10lbs pressure. The other very popular one is where that middle band bed is moved back to 1/2 way between the knox and the mid band.

and then there are variations all over the place like both "mid" beds and all beds, and 4 beds and simply just bed the entire damn thing.

In terms of poundage this is where the rear most shims come in, you shim different amounts to get different pressure to find what the gun likes.

Really its a pain in the ass.....