Bolt shotgun upgrades.

I usually think of bedding an action as something done to improve the accuracy of a rifle. I don't see that bedding a bolt action shotgun would provide any real benefit. What would you be expecting to gain by doing so? I suppose if the action was obviously loose fitting in the stock I might do that, otherwise?
 
Like i said, was just a random thought that occurred to me.
Wasn't planning on doing it. Per se .

And i love my bolt action Hawthorne 410!
 
I don't see the point of it....my only bolt action is an old Westernfield 16ga ... it was a gift when I was a kid ( so I've had it about 57 yrs..)...full choke and its a 26" barrel....it killed a lot of grouse back in the late 50's and into late 60's...../ ...today, its just around for nostalgia...in the back of the safe..

If a shotgun " hits where you look" ...that's all you need.

No, I never tried it...on that shotgun.
 
By bedding the gun action, it will be the same as bedding a rifle action.
After all the shotgun with a rifled barrel is nothing more than a very large
caliber rifle using shotgun case's.
Both Savage and Browning make bolt action rifled barrel shotguns and any
accuracy improvement used on a rifle will help on those guns.
 
As a rainy day project, sure, why not? Using shot I don't know how you would measure improvements unless it contributed to better handling, pointing or makes it better in some manner for you. But in the end, why not?
 
Whatever for? Bedding is only part of the accuracy equation. You'd need a trigger job too. It'd be a great slug gun though.
Savage and Browning don't currently make a bolt action shotgun at all.
 
Generally a shooter wants slugs to group together and buckshot staying in a tight cluster.

Most people today hunt flying targets with some other type of shotgun not a bolt gun.

Remember what they were-- inexpensive behind the door farmers guns, better than a single shot.
 
a slug gun and a shotgun are two different animals.
shot is for shotguns, slugs are for slug guns.
slug guns have rifle sights.
shotguns have beads.

this is why I teach (from the target back)on choosing a gun.

too many people try to bend a shotgun around a telephone pole trying to get it to do something it wasn't designed for.

for the op's sake I will say....if a bolt gun is going to be (converted) to a slug gun, then by all means, yes, it would be good, since the bbl is directly attached to a receiver.

so many people dump so much money into gadgets, especially pump owners, forgetting, the front sight on a pump is on a non permanent bbl and the rear is on the receiver. if the bbl loosens, you lose zero.

so for the op's sake, glass it if its going to be a slug gun....and no if its going to be a shotgun.
 
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One could argue that I bedded the barrel and action of my Savage/Stevens 258.

...But it wasn't for any more of an improvement than holding the shattered stock together, holding the new recoil cross-bolt in place, and keeping the stock from splitting through the inletting again. :rolleyes:

(Major damage. Major repair. I had over two pounds of epoxy, brass rod, and steel pins in the stock before it was back in service.)
 
I have a Mossberg 695 slug gun...maybe the ugliest "shotgun" ever made. it is, however, a very accurate shooter. At 50 yards, using a variation of Hubel's "shotgun from hell" loadings, it will put all shots through the same hole. At 100 yards, it will shoot groups 2 inches C-t-c.
It has a synthetic stock and the barrel/action are not bedded
 
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