Thread: Bedding tikka

When I bed a Tikka T3 I put several layers of electrical tape in the slot in the action where the recoil lug sits then glue the recoil lug to the action with nail varnish. Then bed the front part of the action and the rear. I put a couple of layers of tape along the side of the action so that it is not touching after the bedding job is done. When you pull the action out the lug will stay in place and after you have removed the tape from the recoil lug slot the lug will be relieved a bit like the bottom of a Rem 700 recoil lug. Hope that makes sense.

Originally Posted by stug

When I bed a Tikka T3 I put several layers of electrical tape in the slot in the action where the recoil lug sits then glue the recoil lug to the action with nail varnish. Then bed the front part of the action and the rear. I put a couple of layers of tape along the side of the action so that it is not touching after the bedding job is done. When you pull the action out the lug will stay in place and after you have removed the tape from the recoil lug slot the lug will be relieved a bit like the bottom of a Rem 700 recoil lug. Hope that makes sense.

This sounds like a very good way to.bed a t3 I would be trying this if I were to do another one. I have used the stuff from terminal ballistics and was happy enough with it to use it again . If you take the stock off you will notice the t3s actually have pressure pads about a third of the way down the barrel channel. I remove these (just a slip of a sharp chisel) and open the barrel channel if necessary before load development

Originally Posted by stug

When I bed a Tikka T3 I put several layers of electrical tape in the slot in the action where the recoil lug sits then glue the recoil lug to the action with nail varnish. Then bed the front part of the action and the rear. I put a couple of layers of tape along the side of the action so that it is not touching after the bedding job is done. When you pull the action out the lug will stay in place and after you have removed the tape from the recoil lug slot the lug will be relieved a bit like the bottom of a Rem 700 recoil lug. Hope that makes sense.

Right, im going to do it like this with terminal ballistics research compound. I can understand everything apart from the recoil lug part, i would of thought you would want the lug solid in there so put some compound in the stock slot where the recoil lug goes and push the lug in.
Can you explain the bit about electrical tape in the action slot? So do i put the tape in that slot, then glue the recoil lug to the tape?
Cheers mate

Here are some photos of one did recently. One thing you need to do is relieve the back side of bedding around the slots where the action screws are, these act as a recoil lug if you don't. This was my first attempt at bedding, there are a few things id do different next time but i think its one of those things you will need to learn for yourself through trial and error, as there are so many different processes you can use.