Pillar or glue????

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skeetlee

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I am ready to send out my 30br parts for completion. I am sending the stock to TM stockworks to have it inlet for my Lawton 7500 action. the stock is a Mcmillan HV. I really dont know whether to have the action glued in or to have it pillar bedded. Is there any accuracy gain by having the action glued into place?
 
Whatever your gunsmith does best and the technique that he is most comfortable with.

I like pillar, if theres a problem just pull it apart and fix it. Gun shoots zeros so don't believe pillar bedding will hurt your competitive chances.

That is if you compete.
 
pillar vs. glue-in

While the glue-in seems to have been the standard for a while....and it did solve many bedding problems of yesterday, modern stocks and epoxies are so much better now. Many successful competitors are now going for pillars. I guess Harold Broughton was ahead of his time with fiberglass pillars cut from oil well sucker rods. While I am no big threat at a match, I can say that right now that my two pillar bedded rifles are working fine and are not suffering from lack of a glue-in.....one was done by Phil Jones in the 80's and is still holding in there. He pillared with Bisonite.
 
If you have a recoil lug for your action definitely pillar bed it. And if anybody can do you a good job it's Tom Merideth. I shot nothing but glue ins for 20 years but now I much prefer pillar bedding. It sure makes it easier when you are fitting a barrel.

Dick
 
Another thought...

How about glued and screwed. I've not had a glue in to come loose but with the 30's, I like to be sure and do both. FWIW---Mike
 
mwezell said:
How about glued and screwed. I've not had a glue in to come loose but with the 30's, I like to be sure and do both. FWIW---Mike
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Yes, glued and screwed is superior, but most paid gunsmiths dont like to do it because of the extra time that it takes.

That is why you usually only see/hear it from "self" competitor/gunsmiths, where "time" is not money, but; quality, covering all bases, and winning trumps all else................Don
 
Wilbur,
You have definately got to stop all this rambling on for ever. Gets on peoples nerves. Just make your point and get on with it. :)

Donald
 
Glue is cheaper.

IMO if cost were no object, pillar bedding would be more the norm. The difference, as has been said to a good "paid gunsmith," is a couple hundred dollars.

al
 
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