Glass bedded action??

Question

whats does this mean? and also how do u make a custom rifle...................can you take a trigger from savage/ with the action of winnchester, and a sako barrel etc etc....???

uncle frosty mentions beding the barrel............? i thought floating was the way to go

Answer 1

Even with good hand-fitting, the wood-to-metal contact in a rifle isn't perfect, and even if it's bolted together with exactly the proper tension, there is still a small amount of "play" between the stock and the action. It shouldn't be noticeable grossly, but it's there on a microscopic level. Filling the gaps with a fiberglass-epoxy resin solidifies the contact (so much that you'd best be sure to have plenty of releasing agent coated on when you do it!), and this tends to improve accuracy.
No, a Sako barrel, a Savage trigger, and a Winchester action won't fit together, but there are plenty of custom parts available for just about anything you want. Manufacturing tolerances may be a little tighter, and hand-fitting the parts, plus possibly adding options that aren't available from the factory, make a custom gun.

Answer 2

as with the other answers, you don't have to glass bed it either, some stocks have aluminium bedding blocks, etc. the "easiest" way to make a custom rifle is to start with a rifle you like. adjust the trigger pull to somewhere between 2lbs to 3.5. get the action trued. find you a good match grade barrel, flueted or not is up to you, I've heard people go both ways. find a stock that you like, I prefer synthetic and everyone has heard of mcmillan and they seem to do a good job, never tried them but I hope to. Now you can go get a new trigger, and really all this mess isn't worth your while unless you're doing competition shooting or you have a lot of money to throw around and you want to impress the boys at the range or something. I wouldn't advise building a rifle out of misc spare parts, when there's so many better parts available. If you're just hunting then I wouldn't do anything more than adjust the trigger and find the ammo your rifle likes (yes rifles are particular so try a bunch, it could make up to 1/2 moa of difference. and no matter how much you spend on your rifle and bedding, barrels, truing...won't make a flip if you can't do your part.

Answer 3

I did some research on this and have found two different answers and both make sense. One is you bed the action. This is new to me but I can see how that would improve accuracy. Bedding as I think of it is to take a sporter rifle and bed the barrel in fiber glass filled epoxy. It is difficult to do and after the fact you may find your accuracy is worse. What people do is shoot a sporter (glass bedding never helps bull barrels) fill the stock with some sort of light filler and pour in and fit the epoxy and fiber and barrel. Then shoot the gun again. If things get better they stop. If no change or things get worse they now have a stiff stock they can free float.

I have seen people do this to a bunch of guns and glass bedding usually is good for light tapered (sporter) barrels.

I have seen someone on this site say that glass bedding is for people who are too lazy to free float. That is crap. Free floating is easy. Doing a good bed is hard.

Agreed you can't mix those components.

has anyone ever done carbon fiber bedding?

I want to make it clear I am referring to bedding the barrel not the action in my description

Answer 4

WWD got the bedding part right
I want to address the custom rifle part no it is not taking different stock gun parts and mixing them up they won't fit together
it is where you build some thing that the manufacturers don't make
like a Remington 700 action that has been blue printed and trued assemble it with a hart barrel chambered in 25/308 (25souper) put on a timney trigger have it bedded in a McMillan stock.
I went with a wildcat cambering but you don't have to.
the main purpose is either they don't make a rifle chambered in a particular round or you want or you want a very accurate rifle from the ground up not a 1 size fits all kinda thing you want it built to fit and suit you

Answer 5

as WWD said bedding the action makes it tighter .
But if it is not done right it can ruin the gun ! to much bedding material is worse than no bedding at all !
If you are going to "bed the action " you should first "float the barrel" . This is when you sand out the inside of the stock under the barrel to take away any contact points between the stock and barrel . these spots do more to effect accuracy then bedding the action dose . Any contact between the barrel and stock causes the barrel to actually bend when you shoot causing your shots to vary by up to 2" @ 100yrds.

Answer 6

Different folks, different strokes. The bedding/not bedding contraversy has raged since print came into being. It will still be debated in the future when people are discussing the model z4qa899 particle ray accelator multipurpose phaser rifle; should it be glass bedded or not?