glassbedding and other stuff

[7x57mm]

As a matter of routine, when I get a new rifle I glassbed the action area and the first inch and one-half of the barrel. While I am at it, I make sure the barrel is floated to the thickness of two or three dollar bills. I read a lot of hunting and firearms forums and there seems to be quite a few folks who seem to be fearful of even taking a barreled action out of a stock. So, the question I have is, how many of you glassbed your rifles regardless of how they shoot out of the box. While my CZs have shot good right out of the box, it seems that they turn from good to fantastic with a glass bedding job. Tom Purdom

[R.W.Dale]

 The only thing I do to my CZ's is to fashon a plastic shim that fits under the recoil lug that is thick enough to fully free float the barrel. I then proceed to shoot tiny dinky little groups.

[Brithunter]

I shoot everything first before looking for any "problems" if the riflle shoots well then it gets general cleaning and maint but that's all. I work on the :-

"if it's not broke don't fix it" principle 

    As I rarely buy new rifles I tend to find that bedding is not an issue especially on older rifles where more time and care was taken during their manufacture than seems the norm today. Whilst I have a few rifles with floated barrels the majority of mine probably have bedded barrels including my 601 in .308 Win  .