Bedding tang on 700 question

[Jbordi]

My question in regards to skim bedding on alum. block at the tang area of a 700 receiver. The tang on my rifle has a groove cut into the steel that runs perpendicular to the action. When I skim bed this area I will only set the receiver into the bedding very lighlty to allow floating and stress free bedding. After bedding has cured the there will be a raised area of epoxy that flowed into three groove of the tang. When I torgue this down will this create a pressure point? Should I fill the groove with putty before bedding? Will this groove actually help align and index the receiver into the bedding? I hope this makes sense.

 

[alinwa]

no need for putty, no pressure point.

al

 

[Mike Bryant]

If you are concerned about the groove, remove the groove in the bedding with a cut off wheel in a Dremel after the bedding hardens. The groove is only found on stainless steel actions and is how Remington tells which actions are stainless and which are chrome moly when the cm actions are in the white.