Bedding a Savage 110 Stock

[Doc Lisenby]

I've done it several times but there are ideas that it should be different from standard procedures.  Anyone have any opinions or ideas along this line?

[Prof. Fuller Bullspit]

Years ago my first centerfire rifle was (and still is) a Savage 110K with the laminated stock in 30.06.

I took that out shooting and couldn't keep it on paper at 50 yards. I discovered that the bedding was awful.

I used Brownells Acraglass Gel to bed the recoil lug, the tang and front of the action including the first three or so inches of barrel.

That rifle then would shoot nice round clusters where I wanted them consistently. I tried temporary bedding of the barrel at the fore end of the stock to put some up pressure on the barrel (using paper shims). This tighted groups considerably but I didn't feel it was worth the risk of a wandering zero so I left the barrel free floated.

I would recommend the same process. Bed the tang, the recoil lug and front of the action leaving the barrel free floated first.

Test to see how this shoots. Then try some up pressure on the barrel at the front of the fore end of the stock to see if this improves groups even more.

Then make a choice to put in a pressure pad in that location based on your results.

I do recommend the Accraglass Gel. It works great. Use plenty of release agent. Paste wax works as well as the blue filmy stuff they send with the Accraglass.

[Doc Lisenby]

Not any difference from standard bedding job, eh?  Someone said that you should leave the tang alone.  Doesn't make much sense to me.
Thanks Bull.   Anyone else got any suggestions?  The customer wants to keep the old hardwood stock.  I'm relieving the barrel groove now.  I usually use Marine Tex. Just a matter of preference, I guess.  Most rifles I've had experience with are Rem 700, etc.

[Prof. Fuller Bullspit]

I guess you wouldn't want to put too much up pressure on the tang area which might cause binding. But it doesn't make sense to free float it either!

[gunnut69]

I bed them as normal with just a bit more glass under the barrel re-inforce, just because I'm a pesimist and that locknut still just gives me the willy's.  (yea- I KNOW it works just fine, still it just can't hurt).  Also on the stocks made from 'american hardwood' I would never pressure bed the barrel without stiffening the forearm.  That whitewood can swell and warp like nobodies business, especially the Sycamore stocks.