
Originally Posted by
Zebra13
Al,
I'm LMAO at you championing the Hogue Overmolded stock! Wherethehell were you last week when I was fighting with getting the bedding right on one of those suckers? First off, the barrel channel was crooked which annoyed hell outta me. Second...despite cussing, chanting, drinking, and an animal sacrifice, I could not get the bedding right! There is a high spot in the action inletting caused by the rubber overmolding that resisted all my attempts to do away with. I've never had to remove rubber during a bedding project, so I was a bit flummoxed. I took it out and shot it and got the typical bedding issue 3 and 2 groups. In a rare display of forward thinking, I had also brought along an H&S Precision PSS take-off stock I had laying around and bolted it up. Despite this arrangement showing about .008 whilst doing the indicator bedding check, the rifle shot well and the 3 and 2's were gone.
Rifles...
I'd like to hear how you bed and deal with relieving the rubber on the Hogues. I do like the feel of the stock, and Hogue is about 15 minutes from my house, so they are readily available. My thought was to take a Dremel tool with a sandpaper wheel and use that to open up the inletting. The old sandpaper wrapped around the socket method wasn't cutting it. Literally. My other thought was to raise the action a bit via some tape and re-bed. Lighting the stock on fire was another thought...
I agree with both you and Mram about the H&S stocks. I've always had good luck with them bedding over the aluminum bedding block. And I'm glad you guys were happy with your Stocky's, as they were one of the brands I was looking at but had no experience with.
The rifles I will be building are SA 700's in .308 with Krieger 4-grooves.
Thanks for the replies.
Justin