Tikka Bedding Advice

[El Dirtbag]

Would you start over or let it ride?

I recently bedded a Tikka yesterday and placed bedding between the action and recoil lug by accident. This is a Pure Precision stock that already had the pillar bedded. If the recoil lug wasn’t already bedded, I would have glued it to the action before bedding. I still have to clean up the spill over in the magazine/trigger area.

I’m concerned that if I remove the bedding from the recoil lug, I won’t have full contact between the action and recoil lug because the rest of the action is bedded at this height.

 

[Genin]

I would either let it ride or seeing now that there’s not full coverage of bedding on top of the lug actually chip that off of the top of the lug and redo only that. So after cleaning it all up, removed the bedding on top of the recoil lug, prep it, then only add bedding compound on there and torque it all back down. You should then have a fully bedded lug with the height of the torqued stock on your existing bedding.

 

[El Dirtbag]

 

[BJames]

Mine came out similarly. I had also applied some release agent to the part of the lug the action contacts. I cut away the excess material that bled on to the lug, came right off. I rolled with it, rifle shoots lights out.

Edited to add, mine was the same stock just under the mesa altitude name.

 

[El Dirtbag]

Mine came out similarly. I had also applied some release agent to the part of the lug the action contacts. I cut away the excess material that bled on to the lug, came right off. I rolled with it, rifle shoots lights out.

Edited to add, mine was the same stock just under the mesa altitude name.

Thanks. I’ll shave off the excess bedding on the recoil lug and shoot a group to see if it is good to go.

Once cleaned up, I think the bedding will look good. I read in other forums that’s guy recommend heating up the recoil lug and pulling it from the stock. Then, super glue the recoil lug to the action and properly bed it back into the stock.

The Pure Precision stock was good out the door, but I wanted to tighten up the group a little more. I almost consistently get a flier in every group, regardless of the ammo.

 

[BJames]

Thanks. I’ll shave off the excess bedding on the recoil lug and shoot a group to see if it is good to go.

Once cleaned up, I think the bedding will look good. I read in other forums that’s guy recommend heating up the recoil lug and pulling it from the stock. Then, super glue the recoil lug to the action and properly bed it back into the stock.

The Pure Precision stock was good out the door, but I wanted to tighten up the group a little more. I almost consistently get a flier in every group, regardless of the ammo.

Exact same thing I had with mine. I didn’t think to pull the recoil lug, thought I could work around it. I’ve got about 40 rounds after bedding, after hunting season I’ll pull it and see if I notice anything. But until then, it stays together. Mines a 300 wsm long action, shooting some spicy stuff in a 9 lb rifle. I assume if something isn’t right, I should see it somewhere. My only regret is I picked up the wrong color of marine-Tex and needed it done yesterday. Carbon camo stock, stainless action, white bedding….