Tikka Bedding Advice

[El Dirtbag]

Would you start over or let it ride?

I recently bedded a Tikka yesterday and placed bedding between the action and recoil lug by accident. This is a Pure Precision stock that already had the pillar bedded. If the recoil lug wasn’t already bedded, I would have glued it to the action before bedding. I still have to clean up the spill over in the magazine/trigger area.

I’m concerned that if I remove the bedding from the recoil lug, I won’t have full contact between the action and recoil lug because the rest of the action is bedded at this height.

 

[Genin]

I would either let it ride or seeing now that there’s not full coverage of bedding on top of the lug actually chip that off of the top of the lug and redo only that. So after cleaning it all up, removed the bedding on top of the recoil lug, prep it, then only add bedding compound on there and torque it all back down. You should then have a fully bedded lug with the height of the torqued stock on your existing bedding.