As far as bedding the entire stock, with the factory lug, in one step…well, best of luck. The area between the top of the lug and the slot in the action, fill up with mud before the front of the barrel and the tang hit their elevations. Then you don't have contact with the top of the lug and the slot. That's why I bed a factory lug stock/action…

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Matchman/Yukonal,

What's the reasoning behind not wanting a tight fit between the action and the recoil lug and using the existing slot/thickness recoil lug?  At first I figured I stumbled across a great idea, but after seeing that not many people used a thicker recoil lug I figured there was a reason.  Just not sure what it is?

I'd go with a… Read more

For my 300 winmag, I had to cut the square patches down to about 1 1/2 – 1 5/8″ squares, then they work good.

I generally use the smaller patches on the first pass to really soak the barrel, the slightly larger on the last couple dry patches.

So I took the firing pin assembly out of the bolt.  Cleaned everything and the bolt is quite a bit smoother now.  However, now I'm wondering if its worth it to completely disassemble the pin, spring, etc and polish that firing pin.  I saw a video on that.

Has anyone taken the firing spring off or have instructions?  Looks like a simple c-clips tha… Read more

So T3 Lite blued barrel synthetic stock in a 300 Win Mag………  Bed the entire action, make my forward dam at the beginning of the taper nearest the action.  Free float the barrel from the dam forward.  My only thought for bedding into the tapered section is that I would have some good geometry (tapered section to action) to seat everything, bu… Read more

Follow up on this, without starting a new thread, are you free floating all the way up to the action itself, or just where the barrel starts to taper out to a large diameter?

Likewise, if you're doing a full bed job on the action, do you bed all the way out to the muzzle end of the tapered section.  OR stop with just the actual action at the… Read more

I still have the factory plastic shroud.  I give it a quick lookover and it didn't look cracked, but I was thinking about throwing on the Aluminum shroud for piece of mind.

It seems really strange to me that the bolt rotates when it's dry fired.  Its fairly noticeable and now I can actually feel it rotate when its dry fired.  I haven't actually sh… Read more