Thread: Someone to bed a rifle for me?

Might pay to find someone familiar with Rem model 7s as many don't recommend to free float the thin barrel if bedding as can actually deteriate accuracy of the thin barrel and is purposely pressure pointed from factory.

Bed it with a free floating barrel. Test it. See how it goes. If it's shooting all over the place, then apply pressure with different thickness of plastic strip between barrel and forehand tip till it shoots to your satisfaction. You can evantually apply a blob of epoxy compound under the barrel under tension with that particular strip to make it more permanent . You will have to make sure to apply some release agent under the barrel before end, and you will have to always reapply a similar torque on the action screws to get the same tension on the barrel If you ever take the action out.

Originally Posted by jackson21

Might pay to find someone familiar with Rem model 7s as many don't recommend to free float the thin barrel if bedding as can actually deteriate accuracy of the thin barrel and is purposely pressure pointed from factory.

Its a 300Saum so doesnt have the pencil barrel. My old man has just rang and said he can get Jim Carlson to do it which I might go with as he is an excellent gunsmith

Sounds good, worthwhile to pay to get a real nice job done on a rifle like that.