Gunsmithing Scope mounting: should I bed??

[Ajamant]

Was all excited to bed my first base ( steel 1 piece TPS) to my new birthday present (Savage 10 precision carbine 308). Dry fit the base and there is absolutely no visable gaps or play between front/rear. Question: Do I bed the base or just slap some blue locktite and call her good?? Also will be using TPS rings on new PST 4x16x50 (man I love birthdays ) Anyone with TPS experience, specifically should I lap them??

 

[bohem]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

For that "double round" receiver you should generally have very good results by just using loctite.

 

[Keith Johns]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

No need to bed a base unless there's a need to bed the base.
Be careful doing the diving board test alone though. I double check the rails straightness with my combination square ruler... a $200 straight edge.
Some rails(maybe not for 700s or Savages though) come bent with directions on how to tighten it down. Starting at the middle and working out.
Plus, some rails that are supposed to be straight arent.
I've seen some bent ass rails on rifles. One so bent you could see it from 3 feet away.



If you're talking about bedding it to fill in a gap that may be caused by the receiver not being the correct radius, that I wouldnt worry as much about. If the rail is straight when its tightened down, its fine and is not going anywhere.



On the TPS question.... the ones I've seen were fine.

 

[Neil Allen]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

I bed everytime. .22lr on up, Irons included.

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

i'm on a buttered popcorn run....anyone wanting anything else?

 

[Keith Johns]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

Sierra Nevada IPA
Thanks

 

[Mark Housel]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i'm on a buttered popcorn run....anyone wanting anything else? </div></div>
Box o' Raisinets for me.

 

[Keith Johns]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mark Housel</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Box o' Raisinets for me.

</div></div>

Eeeeww

 

[Neil Allen]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??


So, strapping a flimsy, comparatively speaking, piece of steel on to an action and letting it "find" it's own place in the world is the prefered method?

After reading the instructions that come with the Farrell base and how they say that if you can see a gap between the base and action you should tighten the screws in a prescribed manner. I thought why, in the hell would I purposly torque a scope base to fit onto the action. Since then, I take the time and bed every mount on MY guns.


Neil

PS
IPA's give me heartburn. Got me a nice smooth German Dunkel waiting at home.

 

[Keith Johns]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: N.Allen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PS
IPA's give me heartburn. Got me a nice smooth German Dunkel waiting at home. </div></div>


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Im realizing from bedding bases, that a lot more goes into bedding a base than I used to think. You not only have to get it straight and unstressed, but you cant change cant angle while doing so.
I avoid bedding them unless its needed.

 

[Neil Allen]

Re: Scope mounting: should I bed??

Agree whole heartedly, no stress etc.

After reading numorous threads about action bedding and then taking the first leap and did my own, I realized that the same approach could be applied to bedding scope mounts and the like. After acoouple miscues, yeah it took sometime to scrape and grind off the JB weld from the mount, it seems to work pretty darn good. It's damn evident on a Savage Striker .22 shooting silhouette, if it ain't on straight and when you're running the elevation, having to put in windage to take pig, turkey and ram runts theres a problem.

Thanks for your time Keith.

Neil