What a Bitch!! I only had to knock out the front pillar once and redo it:O. Tough to maintain the proper angle for the recoil lug. I used one of Brownells Ruger pillar kits & Steel-Bed. It eventualy turned out GREAT I started this little project sunday, done thursday pm. (will find out for real tomorrow at the range) . This is an old M77R 6MM rem. it used to be very weather sensitive, the stock touched the barrel HARD at the forend and unevenly along the barrel channel so I free floated it also(aprox .030)I made a substantial recoil lug area 1/2" behind the lug to 1.5" foreward of the lug under the fat part of the BBl. Tomorrow will tell?

Hey, I was going to do this to my 260 and am looking for Do's and Don'ts. Care to elaborate on the troubles you had. How about the tang area, did you bed that also?

Good luck at the range.

CAL

Hey tsturm

Please do elaborate -- I'm soon going to be trying this myself

I was considering pouring the pillars one at a time to try to avoid the problems with the angle on the front pillar.

I'd like to hear what NOT to try...

jpb

[QUOTE]Originally posted by CAL9 from planet Fargo:
[B]Hey, I was going to do this to my 260 and am looking for Do's and Don'ts. Care to elaborate on the troubles you had. How about the tang area, did you bed that also?

The Range session turned out GREAT .75-1.0" 5 shot, w/10-15mph headwind, W/70g hornady @3050 fps.(I couldnt wait on the wind )

I put the rear sleve/pillar in first, it is a brownells(080-911-098)stainless Mauser stock sleve .375OD x .280ID.trimmed for length. I cut some groves & roughed it up real good. I drilled out the rear hole in the stock to 27/64, I found a O ring that fit on the pillar and in the 27/64 stock hole snugly. Then I wrapped the rear screw with masking tape so it would just slide into the pillar
(to center it in pillar)Then I put the rear screw & pillar on the action semi tight, dropped it into the stock, installed and tightened the front screw/floorplate & lightly clamped the rear of the action to the stock, slipped the Oring on the pillar & pushed it as far down into the stock as possible(to keep epoxy from running all over, removed later)then I mixed up some epoxy stuck it into a Hypo.W/16ga needle and injected the epoxy into the void around the pillar and let it set For the front I used the Brownells Ruger pillar kit(080-000-007). The front pillar was basicly the same except a gob of putty replaced the nice sanitary little Oring seal. Because of the funny angle of the front screw/recoil lug you can't put the pillar on the action nice & square & drop the stock on it. The front pillar wasn't a exact fit, the angles were correct but the dimentions and screw diameter change things. To make a long story not as long, the first try on the front pillar ended up not seated squarely on the bottom of the recoil lug. But I had used just enough 5 min epoxy to hold it in place. So after it set a little I pulled it apart to have a look, Then I drove the non fittin ugly sideways sittin piece of SH%# out with a punch and HAMMER.(was able to save all) Good thing I did not let it sit over night, I would have had to drill it out !! I ended up cutting a .035 spacer to make the recoil lug and pillar align properly For the bedding I removed some wood! I under cut/mechanical locked all of the areas were the Bronnells Steel-Bed was to go I also removed material from around the top and bottom of both pillars 1/4-3/8 deep and packed it with Steel-bed
It did turn out GOOD finally!

Good luck ALL