Thread: rifle bedding kit

Do you need to pillar bed the rifle before you bed the action?
I've got a couple that really should be bedded so may as well get into it.

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Originally Posted by Steve123

Do you need to pillar bed the rifle before you bed the action?
I've got a couple that really should be bedded so may as well get into it.

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I would if I was going to do pillars
Been pretty lucky most of the rifles ive bedded have factory pillars

But if i was going to do pillars id get them perfect and glued in
Then glass bedding after

Some of the really good guys do it all at once I haven’t had the balls to try that yet seems like it could all turn
Into a fuck up of Plague Proportions to me��

Ask ten blokes and get ten answers. I have mostly done pillars before bedding to limit the things that can go wrong. Getting pillar heights right so they meet the bottom of the action can be tricky, as can getting the shape of the top of the pillars right to match where they touch the action. I put my pillars in place with Devcon then lightly tighten the action screws so the pillars touch the action and to be sure the bottom metal fits as it should. I also try to sand the top of the pillars to get them to mate as well as possible with the action.

An alternative is to get a good fill of Devcon around the screws and use that as your pillars. In any event, it’s important that the screws are not tight in the pillars. They need to be free to find their own comfortable position and not stress the bedding job. Its pretty easy to drill them out 2mm or so more than the diameter of the screws. Devcon drills cleanly.

I only ever do front and rear bedding now as it’s much easier, cleaner and uses far less resin. The results are the same as full length bedding in terms of accuracy.

As Mickey Duck says, Nathan Foster’s videos are very helpful. Also test fit everything multiple times before pouring resin.