Thread: Some reasons why it often goes bad.

very close but still no cigar....... you nearly had it in the middle then lost it again.... sure the barrel whips around like a mad womans jubblies on a trampoline during fireing.....to take same mental picture....IF said mad woman bounces 1mtr high EVERY time, and both feet and legs move the same distance every time..well her jubblies will pretty much bounce/wobbly the same way everytime (unless of course she grabs them with her hands)
my understanding of bedding/return to battery is to give the rifle/barrel/action THE VERY BEST chance of doing the best it can is to try and put the stresses/contact points in the very same place at beginning of shot every time....
eg my Zastava mauser when I got it shot ok but sometimes would put shot into random place...and it clunked......the clunk drove me nuts till I found out why.

this was the extent of the bedding it had....a pooh blob stuck in barrel channel by someone who thought they knew best...the recoil lug was ummmm free. the action was done up tight BUT the stock was samwiched in between and was narrower then the action screws.so screws were done up tight and stock could move back and forwards about 3mm...sometimes it was forward when shot was taken,sometimes it was back...thus the random fliers.