One Last Time

Boyd is here!

Received the Boyd stock in 10 days of ordering it! I am impressed to be honest. The quality is pretty good with the floorplate inletting being really generous. That's ok as Im going to bed it out anyway. Took me 2 days of tedious checking with paper shims and chiseling to get where I needed to be. Its been a longtime since I fussed in an inletting job. I taped off the barrel to get the free float right on the forend tip and then just have the rear action screw/tang sit on my glued in pillar. Just a strange dance of wrestling and chiseling and checking for clearance with paper strips. Sooooo I had to order some Accra Glas gel. Wow has that stuff went up in price! I like it as its really tough and is fairly easy to work with. I was able to get the front floorplate tang and recoil lug tang to meet so it makes a pillar. So Im feeling pretty amped up on the project. Ill supply some pics if anybody wants. Not an exciting project but hey they aint all exhibition grade rifles! My goal is 1 MOA at 100yds with this guy. Ill take 1.5 MOA but that's the outside.

Wally
 
Love to see some pics, Wally. Years ago, I came into a live varmint gun that good pal Stan Ware's father had built. It was a classic of the era....Mauser 98, a walnut stock with rolled over cheek piece, white line Pachmayr recoil pad, deep blued Douglas barrel chambered in 6MM Remington, Canjar trigger and Buehler scope mounts on the receiver and barrel. After touching up the bedding, it shot honest 5/8" groups at 100 with Sierra 70 gr. HPBT 'match' bullets and WW760. The history of that gun is pretty cool and I'm glad to been a small part of it.

Looking forward to seeing more of your project. :) -Al
 
A few pre-bed pics

Im new to this posting of pictures online but Ill give it the old quarantine try! These are pics of an assembled Mauser with Boyd stock pre bedding job. Accra Glas isnt due til Wednesday if then. Ill post bedding pics after that if they arent too gruesome looking.
 

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WallyDog said:
Im new to this posting of pictures online but Ill give it the old quarantine try! These are pics of an assembled Mauser with Boyd stock pre bedding job. Accra Glas isnt due til Wednesday if then. Ill post bedding pics after that if they arent too gruesome looking.
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TOO MUCH FUN in them pictures...... Good On Ya!

Mausers are a Mother-Bear biggity biotch to bed good, good luck and don't forget to wax everything you don't tape ;)

And remember, as long as you dye the gel an easily duplicated color, patchwork is easy and seamless. (for when the gel oozes into the wrong corner)
 
Old Mousers

Al Nyhus said:
Love to see some pics, Wally. Years ago, I came into a live varmint gun that good pal Stan Ware's father had built. It was a classic of the era....Mauser 98, a walnut stock with rolled over cheek piece, white line Pachmayr recoil pad, deep blued Douglas barrel chambered in 6MM Remington, Canjar trigger and Buehler scope mounts on the receiver and barrel. After touching up the bedding, it shot honest 5/8" groups at 100 with Sierra 70 gr. HPBT 'match' bullets and WW760. The history of that gun is pretty cool and I'm glad to been a small part of it.

Looking forward to seeing more of your project. :) -Al
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I had a very similar gun to the one you mentioned. It was a M98 action on a huge Fagen mahogany stock. White line recoil pad and large Monte cheekpiece. It started life as a Benchrest rifle and was chambered in 6 International. A really interesting round developed as the 6mm answer to the 222AI. Longer neck, Steeper shoulder angle etc. Supposedly Mike Walker had a hand in it. Formed from 250 Savage brass or 22/250. It was fussy to load but I shot a bunch of ww760 and H4895. It shot best when loaded warm shall we say. I can honestly say I shot that barrel 5k rounds at prairie dogs. The barrel looked like gator skin in the throat. I quit dogging and re purposed the rifle for deer/ coyote hunting. It got a HS Hunter stock that feels gummy at the fore end for a nice grip. A Shilen 13 twist barrel I got on sale one size bigger than sporter. 90 gr'ers is it. 243 Winchester chambering. It shoots 5/8 at 100. A mans gun as they are heavy but bomb proof reliability.
 
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I do it in sections.

alinwa said:
TOO MUCH FUN in them pictures...... Good On Ya!

Mausers are a Mother-Bear biggity biotch to bed good, good luck and don't forget to wax everything you don't tape ;)

And remember, as long as you dye the gel an easily duplicated color, patchwork is easy and seamless. (for when the gel oozes into the wrong corner)
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This old Mauser IS a fussy bed job. Im going to do the rear pillar first. Once that is done ill have a better shot at doing the recoil lug area and the first inch or so of the barrel. Then for the third section Ill do the trigger guard area with the brown dye. This isn't my first rodeo for bedding but I listen to any and all advice. Ill take some pics if it doesn't look too gruesome.lol
Wally
 
Phase 2

Got the AcraGlas gel sooner than expected so the rear pillar got spooged in yesterday. 10 hr cure time. I was a lil light on how much I used but not much. A few surface voids but not coming out of every seam so no extensive clean up. Did the recoil lug/barrel area this am. Phase 3 tomorrow for the floor plate.
Wally
 
Just go back and skim coat bed after the first bedding has a chance to cure. This will take care of any voids and shrinkage of thick areas.
 
WallyDog said:
Got the AcraGlas gel sooner than expected so the rear pillar got spooged in yesterday. 10 hr cure time. I was a lil light on how much I used but not much. A few surface voids but not coming out of every seam so no extensive clean up. Did the recoil lug/barrel area this am. Phase 3 tomorrow for the floor plate.
Wally
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OK Wally...... sounds like I might be stepping on your toes but I mean well.

And it'll help somebody if not you.

A suggestion.

A SERIOUS suggestion..... like if you're really serious about bedding??? ya' got's ta' try this......

Go down to TAP Plastics and getcherself a container of Aerosil, Cab-O-Sil, or other fumed silica. DO NOT get anything other than fumed silica! (fumed silica=thixotropicity only, micro-beads=bulking, still runny, fibers/flocs=shrinkage)Mix this with old fashioned runny Acra-Glas to make any consistency you want. This will yield old-fashioned glass-hard, no-shrink bedding. But even handier than gel.

Mixing ratio - squirt resin to suit, weigh it, multiply by .263..... add the 2 numbers together and add hardener to suit

As always, mix in one container then dump to another to adjust texture.
 
Used it many times. -Al

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Al Nyhus said:
Used in concrete work for steel corrosion issues and changing concrete characteristics, correct? -Al
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Maybe, I dunno, I just use it for mixing epoxy.

For me TAP is an hour drive one way and after needing a third refill of the largest container they had (1/2 gallon) I decided to order 10lber and just be done wit' it!

LOL, I've only used about the top six inches of the bag in over a year.... :)

For alla' you'se that ain't seen this freaky stuff, YES that's a real bag leaning against a real shop door. And it's a 10lb bag!

I also have a 25 gallon bag of micro-beads and I think it's 22lb

Both if these things make ground floc look heavy!
 
Toe Stepping?

No worries about toe stepping here. I try and leave my ego at any door I go through. I had never heard of the stuff before but it sure would have a lot of uses in a serious bedding shop. Looked it up on Wikipedia and its also called precipitated silica? Or something like that. Thanks for the info and it will be of interest to all kinds of people.
I finished the Mauser but its probably not photo bragging quality. Lol. Ill post pics of the groups though when I get to the range. The range I planned on going to this year has been closed due to the dadgum virus so no telling when I can get the results posted here. I got a place to shoot but no proper way to bench the rifle for group stuff. The rifle I bought as an 18 yr old kid is good for another 40 yrs and that was my goal.
Wally
 
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