Videos tagged with Action Bedding

This review covers the Browning X-Bolt 2 Hunter, highlighting its classic walnut stock and modern performance features. Key aspects include its free-floated Sporter Contour Barrel for accuracy, action bedding for consistency, and a redesigned action for smoother cycling. The DLX trigger offers a crisp, zero-creep feel, and safety is enhanced by a top tang safety and bolt unlock button.

This guide details the process of glass bedding a Ruger Mini-14 receiver to its stock using a quick-setting epoxy. It covers preparation steps like applying release agents and shoe polish, mixing and applying the bedding compound, clamping the action, curing, and separating the components. The video emphasizes precision and careful removal of excess material to improve firearm accuracy and stability. It also touches on reassembly and final checks.

This video details the process of action bedding for firearms stocks, focusing on repairing cracks caused by bedding failure. It explains how to properly bed an action to ensure consistent return to battery by creating controlled contact points at the front and rear of the action, utilizing a steel bar for structural support and bedding compound for a secure fit. The instructor emphasizes that the goal is not to rigidly trap the action, but to allow controlled movement that returns the firearm to the same position each time.

This guide details the process of free-floating a rifle's barrel, a modification often performed to improve accuracy. It emphasizes that simply removing wood from the barrel channel can be detrimental if not done correctly. The expert instructor highlights the critical importance of proper action bedding, using techniques and materials like Brownells Acraglas, to stabilize the action and achieve consistent accuracy, especially as the barrel heats up.

This guide details the installation of the Magpul Pro 700 Chassis, drawing on expert insights from Dave Timm. It covers the unboxing, material benefits, adjustability features, and crucial troubleshooting steps for action compatibility, particularly with the Seekins Havak action and its magazine catch. The process emphasizes proper tool usage and safety.

This guide details the mechanical bedding process for the Daniel Defense DELTA 5 Mini Chassis, emphasizing repeatable action-to-stock connection. Daniel McLeroy, Product Design Lead, explains the importance of proper bedding for accuracy and how the DELTA 5's mechanical system offers advantages over traditional glass bedding. The process ensures the integral recoil lug interfaces correctly with the aluminum chassis for consistent performance.

This video debunks the myth that lightweight barrels cannot be accurate, demonstrating impressive sub-MOA groups with a Winchester Model 70 in .257 Roberts. The instructor emphasizes the importance of proper bedding, free-floating the barrel, and understanding barrel harmonics for consistent accuracy. He also provides insights into scope selection for hunting, barrel conditioning, and the functional design of a good sporting rifle, advocating for simplicity and purpose-built equipment over excessive features.

This comprehensive guide details the process of pillar bedding a rifle stock, specifically a CZ 455 with an integrated suppressor. Ray, a professional gunsmith from Moss Pawn and Gun, demonstrates the use of the Brownells Master Bedding Kit and Steel-Bed epoxy. The technique involves machining custom pillars, preparing the stock and action, precise epoxy application, and careful curing and finishing for improved rifle stability and accuracy, especially in wooden stocks sensitive to humidity.

This guide details the process of glass bedding a rifle, a technique used to enhance accuracy by ensuring a consistent and stable interface between the rifle's action and stock. The speaker, demonstrating high expertise, explains the importance of barrel harmonics and how bedding eliminates stock-induced inaccuracy. Key steps involve careful preparation, precise epoxy application, and thorough curing, with warnings about the difficulty and potential for damage if done incorrectly. The video uses a Tikka T3 Hunter as a project rifle.

This guide details the process of pillar bedding a Mosin Nagant M39 rifle into a Boyds laminate stock, a technique that enhances accuracy and stock integrity. The process, explained by Ray, a professional gunsmith associated with the Sonoran Desert Institute, involves precise drilling, epoxy application, and careful curing. This modification is crucial for maintaining a stable shooting platform, especially with powerful cartridges like the 7.62x54R.

This guide details how to accurize a Mosin Nagant rifle by modifying an ATI polymer stock for barrel free-floating and performing epoxy bedding. Expert instructor Eric demonstrates advanced gunsmithing techniques, including milling the stock channel and using Acraglas for a stable action fit, significantly improving potential accuracy. The process requires specialized tools and careful application of release agents and epoxy.

This guide details the assembly of a custom Ruger 10/22 build by Iraqveteran8888, featuring Keystone Sporting Arms components, a Revolution stock, and a Trijicon scope. It includes a methodology for accuracy testing with high-end .22 LR match ammunition and discusses the importance of fouling shots and advanced gunsmithing techniques for achieving peak precision. The video highlights the value of upgrading existing firearms for enhanced performance.