I have a friend that is having his Savage 6.5 CM bedded and he just sent me this picture. I guess I don't understand what this smith is trying to accomplish with the barrel spaced off the bedding and going this far past the recoil lug. Can you guys give me your feedback on this. I don't know enough about it to say. The barrel nut is on the bottom right in the picture. The stock is a Choate Tactical stock. It was a fairly large barrel inlet channel. Thank you.

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That's  some jacked up shit. You don't want any bedding material in the barrel channel.

Thanks for the link and I did just read that. I have heard of bedding in front of the recoil lug, about an inch ahead, not four inches. I talked to my friend after he talked to this "smith" and he was told "this is how we did it in the Marines". All kinds of flags on this guy. Putting aside this smiths claims of being a Marine, I looked at the training manuals on the M40A1 thru A3, the manual only shows a pad of about and inch to an inch and a half past the recoil lug. I guess my question now is, is it screwed up and needing redone, or will it work out? I do see from the link posted that barrel contact with the stock produces better groups the less bedding there is.

Any other input is greatly appreciated.

Well, here is what the bedding looks like. I don't know a whole lot, but that seems excessive. Kinda goes against free floating.

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This is why I always do it myself.  It's not a difficult job.  Why pay someone to jack up your rifle when you can do it yourself for "free".  At this point he might as well shoot it and see what happens.  Worse case scenario he can cut the bedding back if it doesn't work.

I'd test it.  You might e VERY pleasantly surprised.  I have FULL LENGTH bedded guns with excellent results.  Mind you, those were fully intended as slow fire, cold shot type guns.....and they shot DAMN WELL.



 

I always bed at least 2" into the barrel channel on hunting rifles, 4" on target rifles. This gives way more support under recoil and helps accuracy.

The posted pictures look incredibly filthy to me. I can't make out what's on the barrel in the photos, perhaps it has a spray on colored finish of some type.

Was the undersize of the action/bbl painted when he bedded it? Lines look not sharp, etc. Bedding against a painted/wear surface seems like an incredibly short-sighted solution, but maybe I'm wrong. Texture of bedding just looks all kinds of funky.

Well, we went shooting today and the rifle really shoots nice. The rifle had the action bedded as you see, and the scope base was bedded. It really did shrink the groups down to MOA and better. This is just a stock Savage. Its not even a tactical model. It has a slightly heavier sporter contour barrel. I can't remember which one exactly, I think it was a predator hunter model. I was really surprised by how well this thing shoots. So, it's not pretty but it works. So, he's happy.

I cant see the pic but way back it was common to bed the barrel channel too.  I have a 6mm rem that is set up that way.  I went into reading and it also depends on synthetic and wood stocks how the are bedded and free floated.