I've done a search here and elsewhere and really haven't come up with what I'm looking for. I'd like to see a step by step description, preferably with pictures, of a couple methods of bedding a Mauser. This would be for a hunting rifle in a factory wood sporter stock that has lots of room around the action and no rear pillar tube. I've done several Remington and Savage rifles and they are straight forward to pillar and bed. I've also done a Springfield 03-A3 in its original stock (very successfully), but used a different method than any I've heard described. Before I make the changes required for that method I'd like to hear what others do.

Here's 4 pages discussing the subject:

http://forums.accuratereloadin...&forum_scope=9411043

First thing I do is cut off the front guard screw tube from the TG, leaving a flat surface similar to Remchesters. Otherwise same as pillar-bedding anything else. Been doing it that way since the early '70s.
Regards, Joe

I go the opposite direction. I add a rear pillar to match the front so that when you assemble the barreled action together with the bottom metal, without the stock, the unit comes to proper torque squared up without any binding.

Without this, it is easy to bed the gap at the rear action screw either too close or too wide which adds stress when torqued. With the pillar cut down to the proper length, it is much easier to bed everything squared up and stress free.

Good Luck.

Huh, I thought this would have generated a bit more discussion. FWIW on the Springfield I did, I cut the front "pillar" tube off on the floor plate and epoxied a short steel pillar of equal length into the stock. I then bedded it as I would have a Remington. My theory was that it would give more repeatable bedding and I was pretty successful. That rifle in its orignal WW2 stock and two-groove barrel consistantly shoots 3/4-1 1/4 MOA with the stock sights. A friend did something similar with a Swede but he scraped it in until the magazine had full bearing on the action then made a rear pillar tube to match. That rifle with a military barrel will put ten in a hole covered by a quarter or better.

Ten shots covered by a quarter or better? That group (quarter size) would roughly measure .686" (+/-). Ten shots, 100yds, military barrel and sights? Possible yes, probable no. Consistently, I doubt it.

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Huh, I thought this would have generated a bit more discussion

I sent you a long PM on the subject.

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Ten shots covered by a quarter or better? That group (quarter size) would roughly measure .686" (+/-). Ten shots, 100yds, military barrel and sights? Possible yes, probable no. Consistently, I doubt it.

With a scope and a custom, bag riding hard maple stock which obviously make a difference. But the action, barrel, and trigger were 100% original Swede. And yes, it was repeatable match after match.

Paul,
I got the PM. Thanks.