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Soft Bedding Spring guns by Mike Hancock

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RCO:
Could someone give me a link to the proper bedding material. The 1/8" neoprene I bought as so dense there was no way it would work.

pipestone:
I know ;)...another old posting, but It looks as If many found some benefit.

I spend parts of the winters tinkering with my guns weather air powered, not that many but would love to have more, or powder burners, and thought I would pass on a little wisdom I found along the way that is kind of pertinent to what I read in the thread here.
Years gone by I bedded the actions of a couple old Marlin bolt rifles and about an 1 1/2" of the barrel as it exited the receiver,  free floated the rest of the barrel. Made a difference for sure but found that by supporting the end of the barrel with several layers of metal duct tape as it left the fore end wood made it even better, but still lacked some in what I thought I could get out of the old girls on the accuracy side of things.

I remembered reading about a guy that had taken RTV and bedded the entire barrel raving about his results. Well I did that a few weeks ago on the two rifles and it made a world of difference.

For those that get creative, and it seems like there are many here on the site, may find a way to utilize this method on their air rifles or whatever.

What i did  first was put down a layer of masking tape in the barrel channel, just in case you don't like the results, you can peel the bedding material out to save the wood. Then I put 'The Right Stuff' in tube, gasket making RTV in black made by Pematex in my barrel channel on top of the masking tape, use plenty the excess will ooze out up along the barrel. Then i put parchment paper on top of the RTV to keep the barrel from sticking and then layed  barreled action back it on top and drew my action screw down to almost to torque. Took q-tips and cleaned up the ooze between barrel and parchment, let dry till the next day, removed the BBL action and took a knife and trimmed along the wood channel both sides. Let it dry more till the next day or two and then wetted the parchment paper with q-tips and water rubbing with the q-t and the paper started dissolving and rolled right off. What it left was a 'true' form of barrel or whatever..receivers.. bedded without the laying of neoprene strips mention in this thread.

FWIW

Dana

avator:
Sounds like a great idea Dana.. thanks for sharing.

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