Gunsmithing Bedding remington 700 help

[Deyoung]

I am new to the forum but have been an active shooter for years. I just did my first bedding job and everything came out ok except...... I didn't quite get enough marine-tex in the barrel lug. I did a full bed job and everything came fantastic and smooth from the rear action screw upto the recoil lug. I tapped the front, sides, and bottom of the recoil lug. The front of the lug area didn't have enough material the full in front of the recoil lug in the recoil groove and down the barrel channel an inch in front of the lug.

It was fine and I should have left it alone but being a perfectionist I didn't. I mixed up another batch of marine tex and fill the recoil lug channel. The problem is that I could not seat the action all the way down because the recoil lug didn't have enough space to displace all the marine tex out of the recoil lug cut out. I was able to sinch it down by screw in the action screws.

My question..... Have I encountered a situation in which I have added stress on the action that will cause shots to string and reduce accuracy? What are my options?

Thanks guys

 

[ShtrRdy]

It's too bad you didn't leave it alone. I think you would have been fine if I understand your description.

The whole idea behind a bedding job is to make a stress free connection between the stock and the action. It sounds like your second pass likely added some thickness under the front action screw. It might only be a few thousandths but it's likely not laying flat against the original bedding. If you think this is the case, you'll probably have to cut out some of the bedding around the front of the action, and all around the recoil lug. You'll have to remove enough material around the recoil lug so that the lug isn't bottoming out. You need to have space between the bottom, sides and front of the lug.

 

[Deyoung]

I wish I had left it alone. Thanks for the reply by the way

If it is not laying against the origional bedding under the front screw..... Should I take a dermel tool and remove the material as well as open the recoil lug channel back up (close to pre-bed) and re-bed?

 

[ShtrRdy]

Yes, you'll have to remove enough bedding material so that the action is resting on the original bedding. If the second round of bedding it stuck to the first round of bedding, I'd suggest removing both by about 1/8". If you installed pillars during your original bedding, you can use this point as the reference to work from.

Basically, you'll need to provide some space for the bedding material to move when you do the bedding job.

 

[xringaccuracy]

Was good to talk to you today. Always glad to help out. Happy Shooting.