Sittin in a blind or treestand =lots of thinking time! Anyone ever glass bed a trad rifle? Would it help the accuracy? I know some of the DWB's have done their White rifles. Needing advice and comments!

thumper50

I have bedded a couple trads - but normally when I install a 15/16ths barrel in a 1 inch Renegade stock. But normally the trad barrels are so strong that they do not much at all anyway. But just for drill one time, and an idea I got from Casecadedad, I bedded a trad barrel in RVT -Blue silicone from just forward of the lock to close to the wedge pin then in front of the wedge pin to almost the end of the forearm. It was really and easy process. Taped the areas on the stock that I want to restrict the RVT from then laid a piece of saran wrap on top of the stock - then sat the barrel in the stock installed the wedge pin and waited. Ather it dried took it apart and with a razor knife cleaned (cut the unwanted RVT off the tape and squared the whole thin up pretty. I just felt that the cushioned RVT might help lower (dampen) the harmonics (vibrations) of the barrel.

Can't say it all worked to better accuracy - but it seems like it should - the gun shoots great....

A friend of mine did some epoxy on his white m97. He said it helped he thinks. I am going to try and find out more. Maybe a winter project. Sabotloader; what is RVT and wher would a guy find it?

thumper50

This stuff..

http://www.unclemoesengineparts.com/product_info.php?products_id=2316&osCsid=f6e61 3e374070782d620dd57775ee8f1

Find it in most automotive departments...

Bedding a bolt action type rifle will normally always help accuracy...Remember they do not normally anchor the barrel just the action. In a Trad ML the barrel is ancored to the stock.

I've glass-bedded an inline ML - it was a lot of fun to do and it did improve accuracy. Go for it!

Thankyou gentlemen!! All advice and comments tell me more than I knew before!!