Bedding a Round 54 Action

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Recently I bedding my round anschutz 54 action without any problems. When I got finished with it, however, its quite noticeable that the bedding is sparse at best around the inletting of the trigger. There simply wasn't enough surface area to get a good bedding surface. Since the action screws are both in front of the trigger does it really matter if the rear is bedded? I was thinking about going in with the milling machine and cutting out the bedding around the inletting for the trigger and just free floating the rear of the action. Since there is so little bedding compound around the trigger inletting it seems to me like with any shrinking or swelling of the stock you would get inconsistent pressures on the rear of the action.

Brian
 
Brian;
You are on the right track. I free float the tang area on all my actions that have bedding screws in front of the trigger.
 
Brian: I concur with your plan, and Freds' comment A 54 needs to float from the front of the bolt back to the far end of the tang. I suspect this is true of any rimfire action that has the rear screw forward of the trigger. Since you have good tools to do the work it should be painless. bob
 
Why not shoot it first it may work great. All three of mine are bedded completely around the action with no problems
Joe
 
Since Joe shoots his far better than I do mine, I'd listen to the advice given......may be something to it. bob
 
Bill Pippin beds them completely in his fine stocks and from what I can tell, there ain't anybody on the planet that does them any better.
 
Brian,

I'm coming from other disciplines, so take this as a possibility, not telling youse mugs how to suck eggs....

Along with about every round action I've ever bedded, I relieved the bedding longitudinally under the action of my 54 in line with the screws & just a tad wider than the screws' width. I did the same up towards the waterline too on both sides, by taping the action before I bedded, though you could do it mechanically afterwards.

This process gave the bedding V block sort of effect, but also eliminated that condition that I noticed in many wood & galss bedded round actions where there is obviously more pressure at the bottom dead centre along the line of the screws - and that can't be optimal.

Did it serve any real purpose? Who knows?

Did it cause any negative issue? No!

John
 
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This is how Meridith did my Suhl is a 54 anything like this the rear floats.
 
Thanks everyone for your input.

I bedded the rifle back during the summer, and it shoots good the way it is. I had my action out of the stock though and got to thinking about it and it seemed logical to me that there might be an advantage to floating the rear of the action. Who knows, it might make a difference or it might not but you never know unless you try unfortunately. Although there are many round action 54s bedded the entire length that shoot really well, who's to say that the bedding is the sole factor responsible for the way the rifle shoots. Maybe if those rifles were floated in the rear they might shoot even better...

So while we are on this bedding topic, what are the thoughts on having the bedding run up into the barrel channel a couple of inches and contact the barrel? Is this a typical practice in benchrest?

Brian
 
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