jkh@jade.UUCP (03/03/87)
X-Sub-Entity: Fort Collins Facility X-Hp-Mailing-Address: Mail Stop 55, Building 2-Upper, Fort Collins Facility X-Hp-Telnet: 1-229-3376 BELL: (303)-229-3376 X-Usenet: hplabs!hplb29a!clarke or hplabs!hpfcla!hpstob!srm2!hpihmaj!mic X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.4] I recently purchased a Remington Model 700 ADL in .308 calibre. I took the gun in to my favorite gunsmith and asked that the gun be fiberglass bedded and the barrel free floated. I verified that the barrel was indeed free floating before I left the shop. The action was bedded well, with no bubbles or cracks visible in the fiberglass. The stock remained free floating for about a week, and then I found that the stock was firmly contacting the barrel. I returned the gun to my gunsmith, who repeated the bedding process. Once again, I verified that the barrel was free floating before I left the shop. This time the stock remained free floating for about 2 weeks before coming into solid contact with the barrel. Again, I returned the gun to my gunsmith. He again repeated the bedding process. He made sure that he sealed the entire inside of the stock with polyurethane. Suspicious, he put the stock in his refrigerator. After several hours, the stock had warped back into contact with the barrel. He hogged out the contact space, resealed the stock, allowed it to dry, and put the stock back in the refrigerator. The stock once again warped into contact with the stock. He repeated the re-bed/cool cycle four times. He finally hogged out the stock so that there is now a fairly wide gap between the barrel and the stock. I have somehow gotten the impression that wood stocks are perhaps not terribly stable, even when completely sealed with polyurethane. I am interested in a stock which will not expand and contract with moisture or temperature changes. I have seen a number of different fiberglass stocks advertised in gun magazines. Could someone with first hand experience please suggest a good fiberglass stock? Can anyone tell me whether the HS Precision fiberglass stock with the aluminium bedding block cast into the stock will shoot as well as a bedded stock from the same manufacturer? HS Precision claims that you do not need to bed the action if you purchase their stock with the specially milled bedding block. I do not know whether or not to believe them. Marc Clarke, Loveland, Colorado Sat Feb 28 15:39:45 MST 1987
jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (03/09/87)
Article: 3:14 In <2666@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> hplabs!hplb29a!clarke (Marc Clarke) wrote: > I took >the gun in to my favorite gunsmith and asked that the gun be fiberglass >bedded and the barrel free floated. I verified that the barrel was >indeed free floating before I left the shop. The action was bedded >well, with no bubbles or cracks visible in the fiberglass. The stock >remained free floating for about a week, and then I found that the stock >was firmly contacting the barrel.... >I have somehow gotten the impression that wood stocks are perhaps not >terribly stable, even when completely sealed with polyurethane. Much depends on the quality of the stock, and how well cured the wood is. I've never had such a problem on, for example, my Walther GX-1, despite transporting it in an unheated trailer in New England winters (and then straight into the range), and shooting in Phoenix coming from a much moister climate. I new stock of some sort might well be an answer. I've seen a few fiberglass stocks, and expected that they'd be much more popular by now than they are (so I wonder about them?). -- Alan M. Marcum Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting marcum@nescorna.Sun.COM Mountain View, California