pillar beddded wood stocks-should they be glass bedded for wet conds?

[hansg/Ups]

I have a pillar bedded,wood stocked ,stainless Savage 116SE.
Should it be glass bedded for wet weather conditions?
Thanks.

[Graybeard]

Pillar bedding is really only to prevent the stock bolts from crushing the stock material. It's not a true bedding of the barrelled action. So yes in my opinion on a wood stocked gun you should seal the wood as well as you can and properly glass bed the action and first couple inches or so of the barrel.

[moorepower]

I like to skim bed all my rifles as with just pillar bedding they can still have a little side to side movement. This includes H&S precision.

[gunnut69]

GB's right on. The fit of the barreled action and the stock are what the nedding is for. Pillar just maintains the fit thru time. Wood moves with moisture and long term comperssion forces. So is the fit is perfect the gradual compression of the wood by the action screws can alter the tension and fit between stock and action. Then the accuracy can go sour. Pillars provide a solid relatively un-compressable spacer between the action and the bottom metal. Most pillars are metal sleeves fitted to the space between the action and bottom metal. I prefer pillars pored in place with aluminum re-enforced bedding compound. The fit is almost always better and it's a lot easier to make it so.

[moorepower]

The gunsmith that showed me uses steel bed for a one stop pillar and skim bed and it works great. There is no guess work on getting the pillars the right length.