I have a Remington 700 in .308. The stock is a McMillan and the action has been pillar and glass bedded. Question - does the trigger guard need to be bedded to the stock? If not, why not? If so, why so? Thanks.

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Originally posted by Rifleman7:
I have a Remington 700 in .308. The stock is a McMillan and the action has been pillar and glass bedded. Question - does the trigger guard need to be bedded to the stock? If not, why not? If so, why so? Thanks.

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If the action is pillar bedded then I wouldn't bed the trigger guard and the screws that hold the action abutt aganist the pillars and they align the recoil lug with the recoil shoulder in the stock and the guard shouldn't take any of the recoil....if the guard doesn't fit correctly and closely then you can bed it for looks but if it is a standard guard it's alum and won't contribute to the stability of the group...If it is a steel guard I would only make sure that it is bedded flat aganist the bottom of the pillars....this has worked for me in several guns but someone else may have had different results....good luck and good shooting!!!

Thanks Bigdaddy, that's what I thought as well. The guard is an HS Precision drop box SS. We'll soon find out how well the setup works.

I always bed the trigger guards so that the screw heads will be in exactly the same place every time.

I don't know if it's necessary, but I always get a good return to zero, so I always do it.

On my HS-Precision stock the trigger guard could move a few thousandths before I did this.

I am an amateur so all is "costs" me is some more pleasurable time fiddling with my rifles!

Don

i always bed the trigger guard
it allows me to take my guns apart for cleaning or travel and then reasamble them without loss of zero.

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