Zero shift from skim bedding

[Tim K]

I've bedded this thing for the fourth time now, and I think it's done. It took all those applications to get the Devcon up to fill the gap between the posts and the stock. The last application is still drying, but this one was just a tiny re-skim of the top edge and an extension of the area under the barrel. It felt pretty good before this, so I'm guessing it will feel rock solid.

I'll be shooting this rifle Tuesday night at the OTC, so I'll get a good chance to confirm it's all worked as I hope.

I'll post up some pics of the finished job as long as no one laughs at what it looks like down deep inside. It's functional...

[Madusa]

Anschutz rifles have won more Olympic medals and world accuracyrecords than all other rimfire rifles combined.

Just throwing it out there. My factory Anschutz rifles are not bedded. Stocks are made from beech. What I'm getting at is, bedding your rifle won't hurt but it may not help.

[Tim K]

It will clearly help. Varying the torque on the action bolts radically changes the POI. Bedding the totally unsupported action is going to go a long way to adding repeatability when removing the action from the stock.

If you meant it might not improve accuracy with the action mounted in the stock (not varying torque), I agree completely. That's not the concern I'm addressing. The rifle is a hammer (by $200 rifle standards) as long as I keep the action in the stock. I'm most concerned about the slightly spongy stock compressing and causing the POI to shift.

[BPTactical]

I'll post up some pics of the finished job as long as no one laughs at what it looks like down deep inside. It's functional...

And ugly girls are "functional" but nobody wants to see a picture of them

[Tim K]

Right. No pics, then!

I'm a delicate flower and wouldn't want to get my feelings hurt if all the other guys laughed at me.

[Hoser]

Anschutz rifles have won more Olympic medals and world accuracyrecords than all other rimfire rifles combined.

Those rifles that won all those medals might have started out as a factory gun, but by the time they won medals about all that was left was the action and bolt, sometimes the stock if it was a chassis.

[BPTactical]

Right. No pics, then!

I'm a delicate flower and wouldn't want to get my feelings hurt if all the other guys laughed at me.

We will laugh at you anyhoo Tim

[Hoser]

Right. No pics, then!

I'm a delicate flower and wouldn't want to get my feelings hurt if all the other guys laughed at me.

You could hold me...

[BPTactical]

You could hold me...

OK, like that's not creepy....

[spongejosh]

I made my own pillars and pillar bedded my Marlin because of the "squishy" wood problem. I didn't measure the torque when I put it back together but I hope to be able to play with it more this winter and see if my zero shifts. It is rock sold now with all metal to metal contact on the mounting screws so I expect it to be repeatable.

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/63393-M...ghlight=marlin