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Offline g00dtime

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Bedding a barrel
« on: May 11, 2012, 07:44:37 AM »
I have a H&R .223, the standard model. I'm just using it for plinking and target shooting. It's a great little gun.


A lot of what gets talked about here I don't know much about. One thing that has sometimes confused me is bedding a rifle stock or fore stock. What exactly is the purpose of bedding a stock? Are you trying to minimize contact between the barrel and the stock? Or maybe have no contact at all except at the attachment point?


I see where some barrels are 'free-floating', I assume the fore stock doesn't touch the barrel at all. Is that what bedding is attempting to do?


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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2012, 08:09:22 AM »
Free floating is exactly that, the barrel touches nothing but the forend screw lug. Bedding makes a gap free contact, or preasure point, at spacific points of the barrel. It depends how your gun shoots, as to the need for bedding or not. The bedding is to control the hamonics of the barrel, some thinner barrels do well to bed at the far end of the forend, and heavy barrels tend to like free floating. This is not carved in stone though. You can temporaraly bed it with a bussiness card, to see if it hurts or helps accuracy. :)
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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 09:09:00 AM »
I'l keep the business card idea in mind though I'm a long way from that point. These past few weeks is the first time I've shot a rifle since being in the Army in 1967, I have to work on relearning everything. It's coming back pretty quickly though...


It sounds like how you hold the rifle can effect what bedding is needed...

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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2012, 09:25:23 AM »
There are easy accurizing tips that are not permanent in the FAQs.  ;)

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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2012, 12:33:59 PM »
Right now my number task is learning to shoot again, squeezing a shot off rather than yanking the trigger. My last time at the range I kept them in a 3" circle at 50 yards. That might not sound great, but compared to my first days shooting it is. I've been doing a lot of practicing with an empty gun and piece of rubber under the hammer, that has helped me a lot. If you know any tricks for a 'beginner' I could probably use them...
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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2012, 07:00:12 PM »
Get a .22RF and do a lot of plinking.  Getting comfortable with shooting is the first step.  Plinking helps develop or redevelop eye and hand coordination.  It helps even with people that were once great shots and have not shot in a while. 
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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2012, 05:30:42 PM »
Quote from: Sourdough on May 13, 2012, 07:00:12 PM
Get a .22RF and do a lot of plinking.  Getting comfortable with shooting is the first step.  Plinking helps develop or redevelop eye and hand coordination.  It helps even with people that were once great shots and have not shot in a while.
At the range I tend to be a slow shooter, generally taking over an hour for a box of 20. At home I'm doing a lot of practice firing with an empty chamber, where I line up the sights and force myself to gently squeeze off a shot, keeping the sights on my 'target'. I have a rubber block under the hammer so the firing pin doesn't catch it all. It has been simple way to practice and when I go to the range I can see an obvious improvement. But you're probably right, I should get a .22rf, I couldn't do it any cheaper, that's for sure.


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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2012, 04:44:40 AM »
Make sure ya get a .22 with a good trigger or you will create more bad habits than ya get rid of,,,,, savage acctrigger models are pretty good and cheap for what ya get.
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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2012, 06:00:08 AM »
FWIW, my Savage 22LR heavy barrel with AccuTrigger is as good as one of my match rifles. I also have several older, cheap bolt action 22s (you know, the kind you used to see everywhere) that have been shot enough that the triggers are pretty much great. You can still find them.
FWIW, if, while shooting, I do not notice that the trigger is a problem, then the trigger isnt a problem. Concentrate on sight picture, ect. and squeeze only when the sights are on target.
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Re: Bedding a barrel
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2012, 05:06:04 AM »
Yeah, I'll look around and pick up a used/cheap .22


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