The truth about bedding

[Wyliecoyote]

I get annoyed at used gun sites where people advertise that their stock for sale is bedded for such and such an action. This does not make it more desirable for sale. In actual fact it makes it less desirable as for me the first thing needed is to rout out the bedding compound used and prep it for new bedding. When an action is bedded into a stock, that bedding is really only good for that action and most likely will be detrimental to a similar actions performance. The objective of bedding is to place the action in as stress free an environment as possible where ideally when the action screws are torqued down there is no measurable movement between stock and barrel at the forend. A simple test of a beddings integrity is to torque down the action screws then alternately release one then the other to see if there is any flex between the barrel and fore end. Any movement beyond a couple of thou is second rate.

[deye243]

Same sort of thing as ammo and gun manufacturers flogging all these so called new wizbang cartridges not one of them does anything that's not already being done with a cartridge that's already available.
Hmmm except the 2 new 17 rimfires even though one was being done back in the 80s

[Oldbloke]

Same sort of thing as ammo and gun manufacturers flogging all these so called new wizbang cartridges not one of them does anything that's not already being done with a cartridge that's already available.
Hmmm except the 2 new 17 rimfires even though one was being done back in the 80s

Spot on

[Wyliecoyote]

Since we're talking 17s, this one should be a winner.

https://www.varminter.com/complete-over ... #more-8486

[deye243]

Since we're talking 17s, this one should be a winner.

https://www.varminter.com/complete-over ... #more-8486

Why it's been around for more the 60 years and because it is way overborne it's bugger all over the 17 rem which sits in between that and the best one of all the 17 222 .
Anyway the 17 fb is very impressive with a 20g pt with a better bc than all the old 17 pills at over 4000fps

[deye243]

I should have thought about your post before making my own I didn't realize you were more than likely being facetious