piller bedding

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Frankr

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Im going to piller bed a short range 100/200 yrd benchrest rifle, useing a haverkamp action into a mcmillian edge stock.
My question is can i bed the action by its self ?
my plan is to find the center line of the stock so i can drill my holes straight.then i was going to find the center line of the action and tape it, verify the stock is square and even and piller bed the action,with half the dia of the action into the stock, so should the action be even front to rear or slightly tilted rear ward? what is the best advise here?
after action is set on pillers im goin to do a full action skim coat bed on complete action to make for full contact with recoil lugs,(i have done this before and it has worked well) but im looking for some advise on this subject.Then i will do some shooting and if i fell its working well great, if not will dremel a few stips into the bedding and use a plastic injector to fill the strips and glue it in there, but i have a piller bedded bench rifle now and it shoots very well.
 
the action has a square rear tang and a center milled flat on the bottom of action that is a recoil lug.
so two recoil lug suface's rear tang and front of milled flat.
 
Oh and what do you gunsmith guru's think is the best bedding compound?
what is the best compuond for glueing in the pillers?
What do you think of brownells steel bed?
what about release agents?
 
I'd use the center flat as the recoil surface and allow plenty of clearance behind the rear tang. Two recoil surfaces are bad juju for accuracy.

I'm a Pro Bed guy. -Al
 
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