I am looking at a HS Precision PSV096 (aluminum beading block) for a Remington Varmint 243 Win that needs a little TLC.
Instead of trying to go pillar bedding on a wood stock that has already been opened up (maybe too well ;-), was looking around and the HS Precision PSV096 or PST012 looked interesting. Both of which appear be setup/inleted for the Rem #3 Varmint barrel and are currently around $300 or a little less. The PST012 is only in black, which the PSV096 is also in stock in tan and green.
Was thinking as a first pass to try with just the aluminum bedding blocks and for my shooting with this gun off bags the flatter PSV096 (if I read it right) appears to be fine (plus is in stock in green which maybe goes with a 243 Win better ;-).
Appreciate a sanity check on stock choices plus other options that should have considered. There should be a thread or ten on HS Precision stocks and SA Rem 700 actions, but not that I found. Of course since the barrel is factory, thus no extra heavy bullets and one does not really know how will shoot until the bedding is taken care of (does have a Shilen trigger for the moment)... guess the worst case is ends up being the 260 Rem project rifle for a couple years in the future.
Background: The first owner of this rifle removed the bedding on the factory wood stock for what appears to have been the first step at bedding issues, but passed away before finishing. The next person did a full length bedding job (tang to stock tip) but the rifle had a few flyers, so bedding was removed in front of the recoil lug with no other changes, with out improvement. But turns out the mag box is now the support and the action had the ejector port a dimes thickness below the wood (i.e. was bedded too low in the stock) ... thus requiring a total re do and the barrel channel will most likely be too large with the receiver correctly bedded.
Instead of trying to go pillar bedding on a wood stock that has already been opened up (maybe too well ;-), was looking around and the HS Precision PSV096 or PST012 looked interesting. Both of which appear be setup/inleted for the Rem #3 Varmint barrel and are currently around $300 or a little less. The PST012 is only in black, which the PSV096 is also in stock in tan and green.
Was thinking as a first pass to try with just the aluminum bedding blocks and for my shooting with this gun off bags the flatter PSV096 (if I read it right) appears to be fine (plus is in stock in green which maybe goes with a 243 Win better ;-).
Appreciate a sanity check on stock choices plus other options that should have considered. There should be a thread or ten on HS Precision stocks and SA Rem 700 actions, but not that I found. Of course since the barrel is factory, thus no extra heavy bullets and one does not really know how will shoot until the bedding is taken care of (does have a Shilen trigger for the moment)... guess the worst case is ends up being the 260 Rem project rifle for a couple years in the future.
Background: The first owner of this rifle removed the bedding on the factory wood stock for what appears to have been the first step at bedding issues, but passed away before finishing. The next person did a full length bedding job (tang to stock tip) but the rifle had a few flyers, so bedding was removed in front of the recoil lug with no other changes, with out improvement. But turns out the mag box is now the support and the action had the ejector port a dimes thickness below the wood (i.e. was bedded too low in the stock) ... thus requiring a total re do and the barrel channel will most likely be too large with the receiver correctly bedded.
