Thread: Bedding tikka

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