After 9 weeks I got my McMillan supergrade stock. Now the question is should I glass bed the action or now? The rifle shot good enough in the cheap factory stock so I'm not that worried about accuracy but strength. Is bedding realy need on a McMillan stock?

bed it - you've got nothing to loose and everything to gain

It wouldn't hurt.
What AcraGlas does is it adds tremendous strength to the entire stock which helps keep it from warping or cracking.
I always use regular AcraGlas, as I have not had the same results with AcraGlas Gel or other products.

If you are a do-it-yourselfer, you can get a whole AcraGlas kit that will give you the proper stuff to do a first-rate job.
Make sure you get the red box, not the green.

Hey Butch, we posted the exact same time.

-Spencer

I think rifles need to be brought up to their full potential by whatever means possible. Good enough is never good enough. I'd have that rifle bedded to the stock, and preferrably benchrest-style with machined aluminum pillars.

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bed it - you've got nothing to loose and everything to gain

bed it.

Agreed.....glass bed it and leave the barrel floating.

proably don't have to, but it takes all of an hour of effort.. bed it

jeffe

Yes I think I would bed it, I had my .375 H&H and I had my 9.3x62 bedded.

If it shoots as is why bed it and throw off the harmonics of the stock. Bedding has been taken to a must do today, while it used to be a fix for poor acuracy and cracked stocks of yester year when people new what they needed. Hope this helps you out. Charlie

I'd get it bedded. It makes the installation a lot cleaner and as others have said, can't hurt.

Bed it.

I must have had at least 20 HS Precision stock come through here for Rem 700s and match barrels and Jewell triggers.

Some shot, some did not shoot when just sitting on the alloy bedding block. Those that shot lost accuracy after a while. All rifles (not mine) are now bedded.

In my experince clais that non bedded rifles shoot OK come about for one or two basic reasons

1) The shooter does not shoot the rifle very much

2) The accuracy standards are low and flyers etc are discounted or the rifle is being tested mainly on beer cans or game.

Keeo in mind that it does not matter how well McMillan or HS Precision make a stock the actions are not consistant in dimensions.

I even rebed Rem 700s that have had the barrel taken off because there is no way the action will go back exactly the same way.

If want to see how much actions vary take two bedded Model 70s and try and swap the stocks.

Mike

My guess is that it will shoot fine without bedding. If it does, then why spend the money? Contrary to popular opinion, "good enough" really is good enough as there are definitely diminishing marginal returns associated with trying to increase the accuracy of a hunting rifle. Now, if you are going to do it yourself and the costs are minimal then I guess you could do it but otherwise I doubt I would bother if the gun shoots.

Best,

JohnTheGreek

I'm with Chas. and the Geek er Greek!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...of course you didn't say what you consider accruate, that would help me make a determination...

Keep in mind, its a composite stock so its basically glassed if it shoots well..adding more glass and taking a chance of it shooting worse is not my idea of the thing to do....