Savage 93R17 TR bedding update...OUCH!!!

[rbertalotto]

I finally got out to shoot the Savage 93R17TR and had a major problem with the bedding job I reported a few weeks ago.

OUCH!!

http://images107.fotki.com/v67/photos/2/36012/9284842/bedding_027-vi.jpg

Read the whole article from beginning to end with the update here.....

http://www.rvbprecision.com/shooting/savage-93r17tr-proper-bedding.html

Thanks!

[shovelheadave]

Ouch !! I'm sorry to see that. After reading your initial post I decided to follow your lead and fix mine too. I went with just building the area up with Devcon Plastic Steel. It's holding strong.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd84/Shovelheadave/DSCN4665.jpg

[rbertalotto]

Shovelhead (love Shovelheads BTW!)....

I'd like to see more of what you did. If all you did was put bedding where the magazine plate meets the wood, that is an improvement, but it doesn't stop the compression of the wood under this bedding material. Simply switching to that 1/8" bottom metal plate that someone on this forum is selling would accomplish much of the same thing. It's an improvement and I'd bet in will increase the accuracy. Because the wood on these stocks is so darn soft, you have to use pillars between the bottom plate and the action........

[shovelheadave]

I should have taken before and after pictures. I was more after just being able to tighten the action. My stock had so little wood around the front action screw, it didn't even come half way around, the plate would just bend in, rather than tighten up.

I scuffed the inside of the stock up pretty well and used your method of building a dam to fill with epoxy. I built it so that I'd have a little epoxy on the top and btm of the "stock pillar" then, just before it completely hardened, I set the action in and clamped it to form a flat top surface for the action to sit in.

Once it was completely hardened (the next day) I redrilled the "pillar" and put it all back together. Now the bottom plate tightens up against the epoxy and doesn't bend in.

Oh - don't forget to put release agent on the inside of your dam too, or it'll become part of your stock....like mine is ;D

This what it looks like from the top.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd84/Shovelheadave/DSCN4666.jpg

[rbertalotto]

Yup, that looks good. That will stop the compression of the wood for sure........

[Dr. Vette]

Simply switching to that 1/8" bottom metal plate that someone on this forum is selling would accomplish much of the same thing.
Where is this available?
I might be interested.

Found it:
http://www.savagegunsmithing.com/rimfire_rifles.html

[forger]

Devcon Steel should be found in any hardware or building supply. But then JB WELD works good for me in those same and many other applications. JB WELD is worth keeping on hand anyway.
Last spring, when I got my rototiller out for the garden, I found the muffler pipe had broken off taking one stud and part or the block with it. By C-clamping it back in place with JB WELD I found it to look good...and after taking the clamps off, that 5hp Briggs ran all season and is still together today. I believe both of these 2-part epoxy items are essentially the same product by two different makers.

[bubbinator]

Excellent article on the stock bedding! 1+ on J-B Weld. I have used it to bed all my rifles (was turned onto it by a USAF Marksmanship Unit member in the 70s. Rifles we did back then still hold theeir zero year to year! I was drawn to the magazine feeding comment you made. I bought a SAvage 93R17 with the laminated thumbhole stock, so stock wood problems have not come up, but my 3 mag WILL NOT feed the first 2 rounds! Both the poly-tip 17grs and HP 20 grs jam below the chamber mouth. Round #3 feeds pretty well if I am pressing up on the mag and #4 & 5 feed every time! Any suggestions? Savage wants the gun back, but prior to all that hassle and cost-is there a fix you know of? My good friend/Agency Armorer/30 yr+ Gunsmith suggested carefully bending the mag lips to allow the cartridge to rise more toward the chamber. I did a litle of this on 1 mag. Dremel-polished the lips on another and left one stock as a control. Minor improvement, but not what I hoped for. What is your take on the feeding issue? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated-Respectfully-Bubbinator