glass bedding a savage bolt gun

[jaybic]

Hello all,

I am looking to glass bed a savage model 10 .223 rifle. It is an older sporter and comes with a simple wood stock from the factory and was never bedded from the factory. It is my sons first centerfire rifle and I am going to try my hand at glass bedding it. I have never done this before so any and all advice and tips are welcome. I am thinking of purchasing a Miles Gilbert glass bedding kit from Midway and starting with that. Instructions are enclosed but I just wanted to bounce it off guys like yourselves who may have done this before and avoid any pitfalls or expensive mistakes and end up with a quality job. I have watched youtube videos to try and educate myself as well. In the end, it is a skill I would like to aquire and save myself some money at the same time.

Any and all suggestions, tips, warnings(ei...forget about it and take it to a gunsmith) are all very welcome and very much appreciated. Thank you for any advice you all may care to share with a beginner at this.

Have a great day!

Jamie

 

[Larry Elliott]

Glass bedding isn't that hard if you can follow the instructions and get release agent on ALL the metal. Brownell's sells a good bedding kit using their Acra Glas gel which has the advantage of not running all over the place.

The only things to watch out for in glass bedding a Savage is to keep the bedding material out of the wrench grooves in the barrel nut. Tape them or fill them with modeling clay or you'll have problems taking things apart. Some Savage 10's/110's need the tang bedded, and others don't like it (my old 112V is one of those). Clear shoe polish (wax) or Johnson's paste floor wax are both excellent release agents. Removing the trigger from a Savage 10/110 can be a pain in the tail, but if you're the least bit mechanically inclined it's not difficult. With the advent of digital cameras two or three clear pictures of the trigger attached to the action are fast, easy, and can prevent confusion. Waxing the exterior of the stock or taping it to keep any spill over from sticking to the exterior of the stock is a good idea. Tongue depressors or popsicle sticks with one end cut square and sharpened like a chisel are a good tool for removing partially set epoxy that's oozed above the stock line too. When the epoxy is stiff enough that it can be cut sharply but not fully set is the time to remove the above stock line ooze.

The first one can be a nail biter, but if I can do it I figure that anyone can. You just get better at it with experience. Take your time and enjoy the work.

 

[Travelor]

Savages DO NOT like to have the tang bedded! I bed them back to the trigger hanger and stop, letting the tang free float.

Works very well for me.

George

 

[pdhntr]

Bedding a Savage.

Stole this from the grandson.

I stretch tape around the nut so bedding compound does not get in the threads.

After taping the nut and adding one layer of tape to the front and bottom of the recoil lug, I cover the whole works with release agent. The receiver and barrel are now ready.

Tape the stock.

I put a little bedding compound on the rear action screw "bulkhead" and don't put any bedding compound under the tang. I inlet so I can slip a piece of paper under the rear tang.

Jim

 

[BillPa]

I got tired using tape,clay and plumber's putty, so I made this.

After the prep work I pull the barrel, install this stub and bed away.

Bill

 

[max.burgess]

They had a rill good article in PS magazine a couple of years ago. You might try to get a copy.

 

[Larry Elliott]

Savages DO NOT like to have the tang bedded! I bed them back to the trigger hanger and stop, letting the tang free float.

Works very well for me.

George

George, when I bedded my old 112V single shot back in the 1980's I tried bedding the tang and couldn't hit a thing so scraped out the tang bedding and it shot fine. On the other hand I bought a 10 a few years back and bedded it like the 112V. It was not happy so I bedded the tang and it's shot fine since. It's easier to not bed the tang at first and trying it rather than having to scrape out bedding though. Once they're bedded that way they want they shoot well though.

Larry