I've got pillars in my stock and it's been bedded. I'm getting good contact on the bottom and the bm seems to lay flat but when I torque the screws down individually the other end of the bottom metal will raise up. Does this effect accuracy and how is it fixed?
Gunsmithing Bottom metal alignment
- Thread starter jsthntn247
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It could. If the bottom metal is not bedded correctly, maybe not. It should lay in the stock without "hingeing" anywhere. However, you may have another probleml. If the mag box is not fitting correctlly it may be contacting the action and putting torque on it. This would cause your bottom metal to raise up when you tighten the screws. This will cause acccurcy problems.
I'm thinking the pillars are canted slightly causing it to raise, there is no mag box, it's a single shot in a stock inleleted for a hinged floorplate. The floorplate lays flat in the stock until I get around 15in/lbs of torque on it then it raises on the opposite end about .030. What is the proper way to bed a floorplate?? Not sure if I just put compound in the inlet area and set the floorplate in their with the stock upside down or set the stock on the action with the gun upside down and slightly torque the screws down.
Is it a rem 700 BDL B/M.....if so, when you trim your pillars you have to account for the 2.250-2.5 degree draft that is present in the B/M
Well damn didn't know anything about that. So will putting the compound in the inlet with the stock inverted and setting the bottom metal down in there with minimal pressure and wrapping a piece of electrical tape around the trigger guard and stock fix this? The compound should fill in the voids and contour to the bottom metal I would assume? I am having a first shot poi change with this gun, it's high and right every time, after that it settles down and stacks the rest.
Yes that will work, but I would use the action screws too so it is aligned correctly. Just barely snug them up.
