Rubber Bedding

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LesWard

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Anyone ever tried it? Maybe something like a marine cutless bearing. Just thinkin guys? Guess you would have to embed the action screws in rubber as well. Kinda like engine mounts.
See ya, Les
 
Anschutz has a adapter ot allow the round actions to be placed into the square stocks and it has a rubber type compound on it and it works very nicely, not sure of the part number but you could search on their website, works great Jeff
 
I bedded a .22 RF (Remington 541-S) using Devcon Flexane back in the 1990s. Turns out Flexane will take a set -- the rifle leaned up against the side of the safe, and the bedding changed. Since this is a long way from ideal, I rebedded it with two small "hard points" -- regular epoxy, like Marine Tex, or Devcon Steel. The rest was done with Flexane.

This worked rather well. Did a friends 541 heavy barrel with the same technique. Both shot quite well -- esp. after gluing the barrel to the action instead of relying on that silly pin.

There are more Flexane products out there now, maybe one of them would work without moving around. If not, it's like a KICK-EEZ (Sorbathane) recoil pad. It's gonna change shape, so you need hard points where the screws go.

Never tried this with a CF. IIRC, Browning did use some form of rubber bedding with the original BOSS rifles.

Not much help, I imagine...
 
Charles E said:
I bedded a .22 RF (Remington 541-S) using Devcon Flexane back in the 1990s. Turns out Flexane will take a set -- the rifle leaned up against the side of the safe, and the bedding changed. Since this is a long way from ideal, I rebedded it with two small "hard points" -- regular epoxy, like Marine Tex, or Devcon Steel. The rest was done with Flexane.

This worked rather well. Did a friends 541 heavy barrel with the same technique. Both shot quite well -- esp. after gluing the barrel to the action instead of relying on that silly pin.

There are more Flexane products out there now, maybe one of them would work without moving around. If not, it's like a KICK-EEZ (Sorbathane) recoil pad. It's gonna change shape, so you need hard points where the screws go.

Never tried this with a CF. IIRC, Browning did use some form of rubber bedding with the original BOSS rifles.

Not much help, I imagine...
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Maybe My crazy dream wasn't so crazy after all.

Thanks Les
 
Winchester in the 1980s (maybe even after that) used a soft thermal plastic bedding material (I think it was called that) in their Model 70s that came w/ the Mcmillan synthetic stocks, and they shoot very well, at least 3 or four that I know of. I think but I'm not sure that the Browning Bolt rifle also used this, perhaps they still do, I don't know.
 
Dan Conzo said:
Winchester in the 1980s (maybe even after that) used a soft thermal plastic bedding material (I think it was called that) in their Model 70s that came w/ the Mcmillan synthetic stocks, and they shoot very well, at least 3 or four that I know of. I think but I'm not sure that the Browning Bolt rifle also used this, perhaps they still do, I don't know.
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Just guessing, but that sounds a lot like a fancy name for hot glue. That's certainly what it looked and felt like.
 
Yeah everything has to have a fancy or technical name today, it reminded me of chew gum. I guess if you don't use those 50 cent words or phrases or reference some technical data I guess it don't mean anything to people, you have to be articulate (whatever that means).
 
Didn't Browning have some type of rubber in the Stock of the Guns with the Boss Tuner ?
 
If you ever get to Florida I make molds using polyurathane rubber of various cosistances all the time. Did 2 dragons for a fireplace and used MANY gallons 2 weeks ago. Ive used the release agent on my amrine tex bedding jobs for years but was never brave enough to try rubber as the bedding material. After reading the Harold Vaughn book Ive wanted to try.
 
ebb,
Vaughn's flexible bedding allowed the action to recoil back, but not to move left or right. That could be an important difference.

Cheers,
Keith
 
I could pour the more flexable rubber around the recoil lug and the harder type around the sides as it bonds to itself real well. The harder type i have seen run over with a fork filt and still be usable as a mold.
 
ebb--I made up a bench block w/ V groove and holes in out of a round block of polyurethane years ago and have been using it since-doesn't mar parts, works fine.
 
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