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Bedding a Choate?
- Thread starter Bushido
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Why? The whole purpose of that molded-in one-piece aluminum V channel insert is to replace pillar bedding. It is machined in one piece for perfect back to front alignment. The supplied hardened stock screws tightened with a torque wrench to the provided Choate spec won't move. The aluminum insert takes the torque compression, same as a pillar would do; the plastic isn't in the screw path.
I used that Ultimate Varmint stock with a modified cheek piece and an O.K. Webber fore end hand rest in the accessory rail to shoot my Savage 10FP at the Long Range Firing School at Camp Perry one year. My first group at 800 yards was a 99-6X. You've already paid for a bedding mechanism. You really need to give the design a chance to prove that you got what you paid for. If you didn't use a torque wrench buy or borrow one. That step is critical to success with this stock.
I used that Ultimate Varmint stock with a modified cheek piece and an O.K. Webber fore end hand rest in the accessory rail to shoot my Savage 10FP at the Long Range Firing School at Camp Perry one year. My first group at 800 yards was a 99-6X. You've already paid for a bedding mechanism. You really need to give the design a chance to prove that you got what you paid for. If you didn't use a torque wrench buy or borrow one. That step is critical to success with this stock.
I'll take your advice Unclenick.I was just thinking that the action could get distorted by not having full contact under it.I thought the bedding block was going to be a semi-circular shape and fit the action exactly.---As far as the torque driver/wrench,I have one allready.Thanks for the reply.
A round shape in a V compels alignment. If they rounded it you would get full contact, but a lower PSI at the contact point for a given amount of thread torque on the action screws. This way you get some micro deformation and a high friction fit. I think Choate thought all that out pretty well, and if it ain't broke. . .