Bedding - Include the barrel nut or no?

[tucker301]

When you bed your varmint and heavier Savages, do you bed:

A: Up to but not including the nut
B: Including the nut, but no barrel
C: The nut and a x inches of barrel (x=?)

[jlcpls]

no nut.

[pdog06]

I tape the front and sides of the lug, the barrel nut, and a few inches of the barrel with 2 layers of painters tape.

Believe the general concensus is you only want the rear of the lug to be bedded, so by adding the tape to the rest it will give a little gap even if the bedding squishes around the front of the lug and nut.

Has worked well for me, so I guess my answer would be

D: action and rear of lug only

[tucker301]

Yes, I've been doing the same on the lug.
I saw some pics on another board where the nut grooves were filled with clay and the nut and first little bit of the barrel were bedded as well.
I was just wondering if there was any particular advantage to doing that.

Thanks for the replies.

[BillPa]

I float everything forward the recoil lug

. I got tired of taping-filling the nut, so I made this. Its .005" larger in diameter then the nut and first inch of the barrel. Once I have the action setting were its supposed to be I'll pull the barrel, install the "whatchamacallit" and bed the action.




If for some reason I want or need to bed the barrel forward the nut I'll do it as a separate operation.

Bill

[Hylander]

B: Including the nut, but no barrel

However that was before desiding to have a Switch barrel.
Now if I just had one of them fancy "whatchamacallitthat's" Bill has, I would be set.
I Wonder how an average guy like myself might go about aqiuring one of those

[tinkerer]

I bedded the nut and about an inch of barrel. After 4 hours, I removed the action and ground out the nut grooves so it is smooth. Put it all back together for the night. YGMV.

Larry
Tinkerer

[EFBell]

Yeah, one of them whojamajiggers would be pretty handy!

[BillPa]

B: Including the nut, but no barrel


Now if I just had one of them fancy "whatchamacallitthat's" Bill has, I would be set.
I Wonder how an average guy like myself might go about acquiring one of those

Well, all ya need is a lathe, some bar stock, a few bits and a supply of of cuss words! I messed the first one up. Savage threads are 20 pitch, not 16 ...right? ;D

Bill