Thread: Rifle choice: $1600 budget

Originally Posted by rimubay

Was the Ken H stock noticeably better after bedding?

Yes is the answer, but I'm not sure exactly that was the issue? Was more of routine process of elimination. Rifle was double grouping, like stock was pinching. Talked to Ken about it and had never had any problems with the alloy bedding block stocks, just drop in and away you go. I sent down to him and got him to bed anyway and he was happy to do it at quite reasonable charge regardless, if that's what I wanted?

One of the other things it possibly could have been bolt release not quite fitted in correctly when reassembled and was pinching. Long story, short I had also been using RE26 in a suppressed 20 inch 22 Creedmore and had created a carbon ring. When I got rifle back I had also been doing quite a bit of research on this and took quite a bit of CLR to remove. I changed powder to RE16 and rifle has shot awesomely ever since.

So could of been any of the 3 things, I'm not sure? The bedding block stocks shouldn't require bedding, but I just like to in nearly all my rifles and I wanted to get more surface area on where action bares on the bedding block. That's why I like the old cheapy Ruger American's, they have an awesome bedding system.