Posted: 2/19/2005 6:39:24 AM EDT
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I have tried to post this in the armory forums to no avail, so I went ahead and posted here maybe you guys can help me. I was thinking of bedding my current GI M1A fiberglass stock. How hard would it be, Does it improve accuracy etc? What type of bedding should I use? thanks for the information |
| not sure exactly on an M1A, but I used acraglas gel on my mauser project and it worked very well. the gel is far easier to work with than the standard acraglas and is quite strong if you add some powdered metal to add strength(I used aluminum) with the way it tightened the rifle up, I will use the same method to bed all of my bolt guns. |
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If you don't know what exactly you are doing when bedding an M1A, you will screw it up. There are ares to be cleared after they are bedded that need clearence when the rifle is reassembled. You don't bed an assembled M14. The fiberglass stocks can be bedded, you just need to clear around some places to prep it. It takes a while to prep one for bedding. I learned from a Marine Corps Match Armorer that is woring at Barrett now. Learned a bunch of nifty tricks about M1A's from him. |
Is it worth it, does it improve accuracy that good? |
I would head the above advise if you have never had any time bedding rifles. I feel differently about the results however. I find that if done correctly it will indeed improve accuracy but most often the average shooter will not notice the difference. If you are just plinking at targets on the weekends and the action fits the stock well, I would leave it alone. Just my 2 cents. CH |