Glass Bedding or pillars..or Both

[Mike in Ct]

I've been reading everything I can find relating to bedding the remington 700 action...Mine is an adl vesion with the Synthetic stock..Ugly...& the tang is a good 3/8 of an inch up over the stock until I start tourquing the screws..It makes me wonder how much this thing is under tension when assembled..The forend has two nubs that push up the med sporter weight barrel..so it is not free floating..I've only shot it once with old handloads for an other 22-250...it can stay in an inch with vertical stringing...I'm hoping to get under half inch at one hundred yards..My old ruger bull barrel shot that well out of the box with good handloads Somedays better..Any experiences with that black plastic? stock you all can relate I'm very interested..I want to do a good
job bedding  that recoil lug & I'm sure I can ..It just bugs me that action does not sit squarely in the stock..so any advice I'm listening...TIA...mike in ct

[Dave in WV]

Replace the stock. IMHO it won't allow the rifle shoot to it's potential. My son has a Savage 110 that came with an injection molded stock much like yours. I bought him a factory laminated stock for Christmas and it shoots better. It was accurate before the stock replacement but it's better now. My Win. M70 had a factory injection molded stock and it shoots better with the laminated stock I had put on it. A Bell & Carlson stock would work for you.

[gunnut69]

It's difficult to asses the bedding on a rifle not free floated.  The barrel pressure will cause the receiver ring to rise when the screws' are backed out.  Remove the pressure points in the barrel channel and be absolutely sure the action is properly bedded.  The tang and the front receiver ring should NOT move when their respective screws are loosened.  If they do the bedding needs fixing.  When the action is stable in it's inlet the barrel pressure can be played with to gain a bit of accuracy.  Remember the glass bedding job fixes problems with the bedding of a rifle.  The Pillar bedding job keeps a good bedding job from going sour as wood fibers compress with age.  A synthetic such as yours will gain very little if at all from pillar bedding...  Do by all means glass bed the action though as it sounds as if it needs it.  The biggest disadvantage to injection molded stocks is their flexibility...very difficult to get a rifle correctly bedded and keep it there...