Try to enhance the accuracy of my Remington Sendero .270 Winchester. Did anyone get any improvement by steelbedding this action? Barrel is freefloating. Thanks for input.
Jan.

One of the top 3, possibly 4 things you can do to improve the overall performance of a factory rifle, without doing anything major, is to properly bed the action. If done correctly, it can only help.

Hello Jan,
How is the rifle shooting now?? Out of the box, most 700's will deliver .5 to.75 moa accuracy w/ the right loads and 1moa is pretty good for a sporting rifle. If your rifle is delivering this level of accuracy, you can end up in a situation of diminishing returns.
You could have competent 'smith remove barrel, square up all mating surfaces, true bolt face, lugs, etc. and in general make all factors proper, double check the crown, very important, lap bore, install Tubbs lug (more bearing surface gained,) and as mentioned, insure bedding is correct, finely tune trigger or even better install Jewell or other quality trigger, and the list can go on and on, but the end result after all of this effort, expense, time will in all probability not produce five shot groups of much less if, I repeat if, your rifle is now delivering sub moa accuracy.
Hey, been there and done that and as most of us want to do, wring out the best we can from the rifle, but may well be like chasing the "golden fleece...," but the gunsmiths love guys like us!!

Jan,

Absolutely steel/glass bedding a rifle can contribute to its accuracy. Actually, now that is the first thing that I do to one before the first shot fired. Don't get me wrong, the Sendero is solid right from the box. But I still bed the recoil lug area, install a jewell, and then work up great hand loads. I can routinely get .16 to .24 inch from there.

I only wished that Remington would take care of the stock, trigger, and bedding job right from the start... in the factory. I'd be willing to pay the difference. Unfortunately, most comsumers probably would not. Hence the junk plastic stocks found on their current M700 line. I always put a McMillan or HS stock on any new M700 I buy.

Remington triggers lately have been hit or miss for me as well. Some can be adjusted down to a clean 1 to 2 lbs. Most however, lately, will not. Enter the Jewell! It comes set at 1 lb from the factory. It drops right in, and is both consistent and reliable.

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Originally posted by ceg1963:
Jan,

I only wished that Remington would take care of the stock, trigger, and bedding job right from the start... in the factory. I'd be willing to pay the difference.

I bet you wouldn’t. Call the custom shop at Remington and ask for a price on that work and see what they quote you.

Rick,

I understand and agree. My only brush with a Custom Shop is in a M70 Super SharpShooter. It was listed at $1650 in 1993! I have replaced the trigger, I didn't need to glass it, it was aplready tight. I will soon Teflon coat it, and put it in a Custom Bastogne Walnut stock.

Unfortunately, I routinely troll the gunshops looking for a sweet deal on a used M700. Once I find my would be rifle project, I immediately restock, work over or retrigger it all together, and then accura glass it in real good. Then I top it off with a high end scope.

Amazingly, they all come in easily under 1/2 inch, sometimes better, with reloads.

v/r

That’s the only kind of rifles I own...built from actions. Don’t own a factory rifle, never have, and never will.