I have a Acraglass kit that's been sitting around for a few years and now have a bit of time to play with it. Specifically, I want to bed an old remington 700 with it. The process seems pretty staightforward, but I wonder if anyone has bedded barrels?

I know the conventional wisdom is to try to freefloat a barrel, but a hammer forged barrel is going to have all kinds of stresses built into it already, and prestressing the barrel with upward pressure on the end of the stock helps with accuracy. I've experimented n this with several rifles, and it seems that 5 to 10 lbs of upward pressure helps.

What I wonder about is ifits worthwhile to bed the entire barrel. I've read that NULA rifles have a fully bedded barrel, as the gunmaker feels that dampening along the barrel makes for a much more accurate rifle that isn't quite as finicky about loads. I would imagine that the builder uses far better barrels than remington though.

Another thought I had was putting a layer of glass in the barrel channel with hopes of stiffening up the stock so that the pressure on the front of the barrel changes less with changes in humidity, Though I'm not sure how thick the glass would need to be to get any real stiffening.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?