Originally Posted by
needs_recoil
The only thing I would do any different than ridgerunner postedis i go full length when I glass bed a rifle clear to the end of the forend of the stock. I started doin that on older wooden stocks because even after being floated sometimes I would have a stock warp and it would have to be floated again. Started full length glassing them and the stock can twist and warp all it wants without adding pressure points on the barrel.
Full length bedding a hunting rifle is not a very good idea. Any pressure changes on the stock (like shooting with a tight sling) will cause changes in the bedding that will affect POI.
Adding bedding material to the stock is helpful in the barrel channel for a few of the reasons previously discussed, but the barrel should only contact the bedding for the first 2"- 3" and be floated for the rest.