Stupid glass bedding question

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dakota.potts

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I have a really awesome CZ 452 that I love shooting. I've also recently fallen in love with Boyd's hardwood stocks, which they offer for my rifle.

I was thinking about buying the stock and maybe inletting it to do some glass bedding on it. I have other projects to finish first but do want to do some pre-planning.

I do get sentimental about things, especially gifts (the rifle was my 18th birthday present) and want to be able to return it to original condition if I want to. If I bed it, does the bedding hold the action in to the stock or can it be easily removed? Is there a chance of doing it wrong and welding the two together? Can it mar the action or barrel in any significant way if done wrong?

I'm sure they are stupid questions and I'll probably bed one of my Mosins first before trying it on my nice rifle, but I was curious.
 
You aply release agent to the action before you press it down into the glass bed . I've sen some Gunsmiths use a light coat of plain grease . The Accuraglass kit comes with every thing needed . And contains some of the best fiber glass you can get .
 
Competitive shooters typically prefer MarineTex or Devcon; plastic steel stuff that shrinks the least while curing. Accuraglas shrinks quite a bit so it's easier to work a barreled action out of it than plastic steel. "Walk" the barreled action up back and forth in small strokes and it'll come out of plastic steel easily.

Simonize car wax, spread as thin as possible on the steel parts, ends up with the tightest fit of receiver to epoxy bedding.

Totally free float the barrel; nothing touches it whatsoever.
 
Judging from the question are you sure you want to do this job yourself?
A bad bedding job is worse than none at all.
There's the instructions that come with a bedding kit and then there's the required skill to actually do it right.
Before you tackle your venerated and much cherished rifle, how about trying it on something less valuable?
Maybe a cheapie .22 or air rifle for example.
Just a thought.
 
Keep the original stock original. Send ScoreHigh the Boyd's along with your action. Then its bedding is done professionally right. ~~~Or rent their drill kit to add pillars and bed your rifles action at the same time FDIY project. If you intend to buy a Boyd's. My suggestion. Buy their walnut stock. As anything laminated are always heavier in stock weight verses the original.

As far as bedding a stock. Read Score High's web site as it has lots of Tips & Info there. Know first hand just what your getting yourself into before attempting. And yes if you slip up the bedding compond's are hard to remove as would be the metal action itself glued into its stock by accident.
Big tip: Consider buying your bedding kit from Score High as it comes complete nothing missing what so ever. (tools compounds what ever. Its all enclosed in their kit.)

http://www.scorehi.com/
 
g.willikers, I'm not sure I want to do it myself but I'm also trying to learn how to do more things on firearms. Like I said, I'll probably try it on one of my Mosins or something first and I'll judge from there. What's the approximate price of sending a stock in and having someone else bed it?
 
A few suggestions....

I'm not sure if Boyd's does it, but you can order your stock "over-fitted" which means that the inletting is slightly larger dimensionally for glass bedding. At least for me, that is the hardest/slowest part of the process. You can even put a small screw or shim behind the recoil lug to adjust the fit slightly. Also, if you are uncomfortable in a perfect "end-to-end" bedding job, you can do the action first & the barrel channel later (or not bed the channel at all). If you want to pillar bed too, the pillars need not be fancy or expensive. They just stop the screws from compressing the wood stock. Threaded lamp tubing or aluminum tubing of the right diameter can usually be scrounged up. I know a guy that uses cut-off cartridge cases as pillars & he has excellent results! :)

FWIW....

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I've bedded a few CZ 452s and a couple of CZ455s and wouldn't recommend bedding them as your first attempt. They are fairly difficult to bed, especially hard to pillar-bed, due to screw and magazine locations. The 455 also has countersunk barrel attachment hex screw holes that need filling or covering.

I have some pictures but the files are too large to post here.
 
I used Devcon liquid steel on my CZ 452 Varmint, I wanted that tight fit do to mine has that barrel screw & 1 action screw. Worked great for me, as long as you are very careful with putting release agent on you will be fine. check out all the bedding vedios on line & pick a time about 1 hour.
 
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