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Which pillars to use to bed benchrest rifle?
midnightrunpaintballer
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I'm about to bed the action on the benchrest rifle I'm currently building and I need some advice. I need some adjustable pillars that are tall enough for a benchrest stock. I don't know which ones to buy. In the past, I've bedded a handfull of rifles and ran into this problem even with aftermarket hunting stocks. I've tried the adjustable set by score high and found that one pillar was perfect but the other was too short. The benchrest stock I'm using this time is MUCH thicker than the stocks I've bedded before so I know I'm going to be pulling my hair out if I go the same route I did before. I don't really want to buy two sets of pillars to get what I need this time. Where should I turn to?
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Some really good measuring will have you doing a good job.....
Any non-compressable material will do. You can even make them out of your epoxy bedding material. Pillars are not meant to support the action. They are there to keep the stock from compressing under the tension of the action screws. If you use a glue-in method of bedding, you do not need pillars.
Ray
Glue ins seem to shoot the best, though.
These are what I was looking for. Got em ordered. Thanks for the help guys.
Don't want a glue in on this one.
Gotta bed the action, pick up another set of rings, and do the finish work. Just came back from the smith from having bolt stop installed, barrel threaded, brake installed, and brake turned down to match barrel profile. Time to get back to work on it now.