Glass bedding M-70

62fuelie

March 18, 2011 12:45

When glass bedding a pre-64 M-70 is it better to remove the trigger group or to try to get modelling clay into all the recesses and then get it out again? Not the original stock - that's on the shelf.

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  Hangfire

  March 18, 2011 16:25

  Brian, take the trigger group off.. Please !!

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  oneoldsap

  March 18, 2011 16:36

  Ditto !

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  tsr1965

  March 18, 2011 17:21

  62fuelie,
  
  Are also installing pillars? Not sure what your objectives are, but to ring the most accuracy out of it, pillars are a must. They stabalize the launching platform, and relieve any inherent stress the bedding applies to the action.
  
  As long as you are doing any bedding work to a Pre-64, it turns it into a shooter, not a collector.
  
  Yes, I would remove the trigger group, to keep the gunk out of it.
  
  Best

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  62fuelie

  March 19, 2011 14:19

  Thanks, everyone. That's what I thought would be the best way. This is a 1963 .243 Varminter that was just great until my "gunsmith" decided to do me a favor and touch up the one flaw in the barrel finish. Now it has a completely stainless steel finish. I have kept the factory stock untouched and am bedding in a laminate from Richards. Waiting to see if there is a cost-effective way to replicate the iron-plated-then-blued original.

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