It's recommended to bond the Vision chassis, but it's not required. Some guys choose not to, OR bond it with release agent and treat it like a typical bedding job. The atx isn't bonded.View attachment 8123348
Finally got this thing out over the weekend!
Also, if I were to swap this setup into a vision or a AT-X chassis do they need to still be bonded? Being non quick change it would be a giant pain to swap barrels if you had to debond it each time. Can't use the new handguards either.
Regardless, using the vision wouldn't require it to be un-bonded each time, but if you had barrels between 16-20" you would have very limited real estate to clamp the barrel into a vise. The forend is designed for 16.5" as the minimum length, so really you'd need an 18" barrel to have 2" of barrel in a vise.