so again, im new to savages. I've been doing a bunch of research on them and getting conflicting results. Some say to bed the rear tang area with the rest of the stock, some say to leave the rear tang floating...any real life suggestions? I'll be bedding a 110 338 Lapua Mag
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Savage bedding question
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I've always floated mine and they all shot well enough. Never bedded one to know the difference. It makes since to me to float it since it appears to be like a cantilever. Looks like bedding it would induce stress.
My only Savage rifle with a non-Savage factory stock is McMillan factory pillar bedded. Since I trust them implicitly to know what they're doing, I never even looked to see if the tang is floated or not. Savage factory stocks are factory pillar bedded. I'd rather mess with a wasp's nest than mess with that. Except for the McMillan, all my Savages are plain-jane factory rifles, and with reasonably diligent load development and basic handloading, they shoot better than I can.
IMHO, when a Savage won't shoot, it's very likely to be the ammo or something buggered, like a damaged crown, etc.
Greg
IMHO, when a Savage won't shoot, it's very likely to be the ammo or something buggered, like a damaged crown, etc.
Greg
Float the tang is what I've heard and what I've done. I think I bedded the tang on one, in a Bell & Carlson stock, and it didn't shoot well enough, so I hogged out the bedding in the rear, and it shot under 0.5 MOA for five shots. So I would say, based on that limited experience, to float it, and make sure there's no contact at all between the tang and the stock.
I dropped my Stevens 200 (Savage action) in a Choate stock and it shot OK, I read about floating the tang and got to filing away some cheap plastic on the stock and my groups shrank noticeably (around 1/2" @ 100) but there is a huge caveat to this story. The tang area was not part of the machined aluminum bedding block so I doubt that it lined up 100% with the 2 action screws, if I were having RWS properly bed another stock for me I wouldn't worry about floating the tang because the bedding compound conforms to the action and does not impart any misalignment to the action, a stock that the tang area isn't machined with the action screw areas not so much.
On savages you want to float the rear tang. The Savage 10 rear action screw does not screw into the receiver as far back on the Remington 700. On the Savage 10's they have the safety mechanism in the rear tang so the action screw is forward of the trigger mechanism. Even if you were to bed it, you would have to relieve the bedding enough so that your safety would still function. Since the action screw is forward of the trigger, bedding behind the trigger mechanism on the Savage won't gain you anything but could mess things up. However on the Remington 700, where the rear action screw is threaded into the rear tang, you gain quite a bit by bedding it.
I have yet to read anyone's account of floating the tang hurting accuracy and plenty of accounts of it helping.
