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Posted: 7/20/2011 6:10:41 PM EDT
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I have an opportunity to purchase a Mcmilan A4 stock for a very good price. My friend who ordered it never got around to building the rifle out, but when he ordered it, he had the barrel channel cut to fit a pretty heavy barrel. I have a Rem. 700p which has a heavy barrel, but it's narrower than the channel in the stock so there is about an 1/8" gap between the barrell and stock. I realize this won't affect accuracy, but it looks a little silly. My question is, how hard would it be to add material to the stock to fill in that gap. Should I use fiberglass? What's the best way to go about it? I'm buying it at a good enough price that if it's easy enough to do, it would be worth it.
Thanks! I posted this in the precision rifle section, but thought this might be a better place. |
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Option1: Tape off the sides and the forend tip. Rough up the barrel channel. Get a piece of PVC pipe about the size you want to lay in there. Coat with release agent or lots of car wax
Fill the channel with Marine-tex from the boater store. Press in pvc pipe and skim off the ooze from both sides with popsicle sticks or some scraper and let dry. Pop it out and done. Option 2: just skim fill the channel by smearing marine-tex in there and use a PVC pipe with sandpaper wrapped around it to smooth out and build up the thickness you need to close in the barrel channel. Option 3: You could also do this with your barreled action if you coated it good with release agent and did a clean job. Then you would have to sand to re-free float your barrel. All these methods work fine if you have the patience and do the prep and finish work. |
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You could also layer tape on the underside of your barrel, coat everything else in release. Would give you however much clearance you want and not have to worry about sanding. This^ Wrap your barrel with several layers of tape, coat with release agent(car wax, pam), block off the barrel channel at the recoil lug with modeling clay. Tape the stock well. Brownells sells dye to mix in their bedding kits. I just use marine epoxy. Coat the channel, drop in the action and set the screws, scrape off the excess, and presto! as soon as it cures you have a perfectly free floated barrel channel. Best not to do it on your kitchen table..... Of course, there's nothing wrong with having some ventilation space around your barrel to let air circulate! 
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Ditto, out the gate, bead the receiver into the stoke first.
From there, wrap the barrel is a few layers of tape with release agent, bed in the barrel channel as well. Granted that there is nothing wrong with the 1/8" (allows better cooling), when it all said and done, you still want the entire barrel still free floating from the barrel channel even after adding more bedding to the barrel channel in the stock. |
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Quoted: I have an opportunity to purchase a Mcmilan A4 stock for a very good price. My friend who ordered it never got around to building the rifle out, but when he ordered it, he had the barrel channel cut to fit a pretty heavy barrel. I have a Rem. 700p which has a heavy barrel, but it's narrower than the channel in the stock so there is about an 1/8" gap between the barrell and stock. I realize this won't affect accuracy, but it looks a little silly. My question is, how hard would it be to add material to the stock to fill in that gap. Should I use fiberglass? What's the best way to go about it? I'm buying it at a good enough price that if it's easy enough to do, it would be worth it. Thanks! I posted this in the precision rifle section, but thought this might be a better place. Like some of the others have said, there is nothing wrong with a 1/8 gap. In fact, I would consider that perfect. As long as you have a securely and supremely fitted stock to action fit....you should be good to go. Is your barrel heavily tapered or is it the nominal from the action to the muzzle???? |
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