Bedding a Remington 700 SPS V + PICS!

[philip140 6]

So, I’ve decided after toying with the idea for almost 6 months now to bed the action of my rifle, a Remington 700 SPS Varmint chambered in .223. The stock itself doesn’t have much contact area with the action and is very much a skeletonised affair. After much searching for the right epoxy then trying to locate steel or glass powder I stumbled upon a slow set epoxy that has steel already in it called JB Weld. It was at my local hobby store two minutes walk from my home all along.

After researching this product and it’s suitability for action bedding I decided to give it a go.

 

First off I decided that I was going to play it safe since it was my first time, so I went easy by inletting only the tang area and leaving the area around the recoil lug as it is.

 

 

Due to the deep voids around the action area of the stock, I filled them 2/3rds of the way up with slow set clear epoxy because I didn’t have enough JB Weld. Anyway, once it was set, I drilled holes in it and the walls of the stock for the bedding compound to grab onto.

 

 

Using masking tape, I taped all areas of the stock around the action where I wanted to avoid bleed out and also plugged areas inside the action and the stock with putty where I didn’t want any bedding compound to go.

 

 

And taped the front, sides and bottom of the recoil lug…

 

 

 

I put the epoxy under a lamp for a few hours to help cure and strengthen it, but this wasn’t needed and as the stock expanded and contracted pulled away from the cured epoxy in some areas.

 

Once everything was set to go I used bow string wax to cover all areas of the action around the tang and recoil lug so I could release the action once the bedding compound was set. After that I cleaned all areas of the stock where the compound was going with a q-tip and acetone.

 

Then I mixed up the JB Weld for about five minutes before applying it to the action.

 

 

Then I applied the compound to the stock.

 

 

And screwed the action back into the stock and tightened down.

 

 

After a day I pulled the action from the stock with relative ease (archery wax worked great!), but noted there were areas where the compound did not go, so after cleaning I scratched the areas and filled with bedding compound and did the whole process again.

 

 

Once the compound had set, again I pulled the action to reveal a much better bedding job.

 

 

After clean up…

 

 

Next came free floating the barrel, simple really – just remove the small pads at the end of the stock under the barrel – mistake? Yep! The stock came up to touch the barrel and moved to the right.

 

 

Any advice on this guys?

 

All in all though, I thought I did ok for my first bedding job even with the free float disaster. I learnt that no matter what anybody says, ALWAYS use way more compound than you think you’ll need, I’d rather spend more time cleaning up the excess than have to finish off the job the next day.

 

Thanks for reading guys.

 

Phil

[v-max 2]

Hi very good job there but i would have just got an HS-stock but i suppose it was fun doing the bedding work. As for your front mounted preasure what you took off just replace it with your jb weld or arldite right round the inner of the stock i did this with remmy 700 when i had the factory stock mistake!.

You dont want to much as you are only looking to get the same depth as what you removed from the front hope this helps. To free float your action you might have to look into rebedding the front/recoil lug area with a bit more jb weld but dont screw the action right down into it. Failling that i would go down the HS-stock route i got 1 for my mates remmy sps in LA & its some rifle now.

[coldweld 65]

Nice job, and good pics but i would get a HS stock.

[crumblyned 0]

Well done! I hope it all works out for you. It takes BALLS to take it on yourself instead of paying someone to do it for you. GOOD post, thanks Ned