Humor for the day... new bedding technique

[Frank Green]

So took a rifle a part last night. I picked up a used Rem. 700 Varmint and will be rebuilding it. Got it for a really fair price. It hadn't been shot in years and I was told it was put away and sat in a gun cabinet because the owner couldn't get it to shoot. So I bought it. I'm going to rebarrel it anyways. While it was together.... there was like a elastic/rubber type substance coming out from the front of the action/stock area. I was guessing the guy used RTV silicone for bedding. So I took the gun a part and the previous owner used 4 pcs of black electrical tape to bed the front of the receiver / stock.

Of course the barrel is fouled horribly... copper on tops of the lands, carbon fouled and not to mention the crown is all hacked up and on top of all of that... the bore is also pitted.

And we wonder why at times the guns don't shoot!

Later, Frank
Bartlein Barrels

P.S. I'll try uploading a pic later... it won't load right now for whatever reason.

 

[Gogga]

Owning a gun only makes you a gun owner, not a gun person This applies to cars, dogs, computers and many other things. The fun part is taking something like that and making it better. I have a Parker Hale 1200C Superclip in need of some TLC when I get around to it.

Look forward to seeing what you do with it. Have you decided what make of barrel you're going to use?

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Electrical tape, that sounds like some fudd lore life hack. He should've put a piece at the tang....

 

[LeftyJason]

Owning a gun only makes you a gun owner, not a gun person This applies to cars, dogs, computers and many other things. The fun part is taking something like that and making it better. I have a Parker Hale 1200C Superclip in need of some TLC when I get around to it.

Look forward to seeing what you do with it. Have you decided what make of barrel you're going to use?

Um....

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Later, Frank
Bartlein Barrels
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[OREGUN]

Um....

Nothing gets past this one.

 

[Charger442]

Um....

well maybe there's a 6 month backlog and he doesn't want to wait....

 

[Potsy]

Pretty sure there’s a Marlin .22 in the safe with the barrel bedded just in front of the action with masking tape.
Some of the finest 19-year-old-pre-interweb gunsmithery you’re likely to encounter!

Gun shoots very well, btw……

 

[Charger442]

Pretty sure there’s a Marlin .22 in the safe with the barrel bedded just in front of the action with masking tape.
Some of the finest 19-year-old-pre-interweb gunsmithery you’re likely to encounter!

Gun shoots very well, btw……

we all forget how people got by in the age before marine-tex, the internet, gun magazine, or really anything other than necessity and word of mouth.

it put a lot of food on the table.....

 

[Potsy]

If I’m remembering right, that was a little project inspired by a Bob Milek article in Guns & Ammo. He had taken an old .22 and fixed it up. I had an old Marlin Model 25 (I believe that’s what it is) and I was off to the races.
My efforts fell well short of Bob’s, but like I said; it shoots well, and the little magazine stays loaded with stingers.
It’s a good thing it’s pretty accurate, because the one thing I never did fix was the fact it never fed worth a damn. Been meaning to correct that for 30 years or so…..

 

[cas6969]

Shows you what you guys know....

Just out of high school, I bought a Rem 700V. Was unimpressed with how it shot, so I decided to bed it. I set about the task, but I wasn't 100% sure what I was supposed to do with the recoil lug.. Bed it? Bed one side? Bed the whole thing? In those pre internet days, with no gun magazines on hand that covered it, no books and nothing helpful at the local library, I decided I'd do that part later, when I found out for sure. So I wrapped the recoil lug in electrical tape to make a snug fit in the stock to keep the bedding material out of the pocket. Yeah, I know, that makes zero sense, but I was young and never one for waiting once I got obsessed with something, I was hot to start working on it NOW!

Skip to the end of the story, it shot amazing like that. Honest 1/4" rifle. And I left it that way... because I had no choice. Because no amount of beating would free that action from that stock. I done glued it in there real good! I used it that way for years.

 

[JerkyFreak]

Shows you what you guys know....

Just out of high school, I bought a Rem 700V. Was unimpressed with how it shot, so I decided to bed it. I set about the task, but I wasn't 100% sure what I was supposed to do with the recoil lug.. Bed it? Bed one side? Bed the whole thing? In those pre internet days, with no gun magazines on hand that covered it, no books and nothing helpful at the local library, I decided I'd do that part later, when I found out for sure. So I wrapped the recoil lug in electrical tape to make a snug fit in the stock to keep the bedding material out of the pocket. Yeah, I know, that makes zero sense, but I was young and never one for waiting once I got obsessed with something, I was hot to start working on it NOW!

Skip to the end of the story, it shot amazing like that. Honest 1/4" rifle. And I left it that way... because I had no choice. Because no amount of beating would free that action from that stock. I done glued it in there real good! I used it that way for years.

I had a real good laugh about that one. Was my biggest fear when bedding my own. Spent weeks making the stock out of a nice dense maple blank. Would have been a shame to destroy it to get the action out of the devcon.

 

[supercorndogs]

BTW if you stick an action in a stock. Heat the action up with a heat gun.

 

[roostercogburn98]

I’ve got a Winchester Model 54 made in 1934ish, rebarreled at some point by a fairly prominent wildcatter. It is/was bedded with some really odd looking stuff. It might have been tape at one point. More than likely rebarreled in the late 30s or 40s, still shoots really small groups for a 90 year old action.

 

[cas6969]

BTW if you stick an action in a stock. Heat the action up with a heat gun.

I heated it, froze it, dropped it on the butt repeatedly, tried penetrating oil... actually beat a flat spot on the bottom of the barrel just in front of the stock from whacking on it.



Today I'd say I'd stress relieved the barrel and charge $700 more when I sold it.

 

[supercorndogs]

You didn't get it hot enough. You can remove flush cups the same way. Put an Allen wrench in and heat it up and they screw right out once they get hot enough. You have to get them hot enough though. I would think it would break a mechanical lock too as the epoxy turns soft.

 

[Cody S]

no wonder your back log is so bad, back to work!
jk honestly this seemed like something I would have tried 15 years ago when I was learning