Help: Bedding Conundrum

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Why would it matter, do you shoot your rifles with loose screws?
How is the bedding around the recoil lug? The front action screw pretty much just seats the lug into the recess in the stock.

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Incorrect bedding matters allot. All the gurus say .002 or less is acceptable. The have been bedded from the lug to the rear action screw with tang floated. Just wondering why all my Savage rifles fail the test on the front action screw and not the rear?

I definitley understand where you're comming from. I dont get any discernable movment on mine.. but that doesnt mean I'm not in that .003 - .005 range.. I dont have a runout guage to check. The issue you're running into is obviously related to the front half of the action and the bedding there. I'd not expect much bedding compound on the sides around the mag well hole (mine is so thin there that its see through and wont show even in pics from an 8mp camera). Are there any deformaties in and around the front action screw or around the lug? Even if your area round the front action screw isnt well and good, if the recoil lug is bedded in good and tight, I'd not expect to see any real movement.

I dont know how thick electrical tape is, but thats what I lined my lug with (only the outside).. and thats all the movement I could see...

I'm at work and can't see if there are pics on this thread.. would you be so kind as to post pics if you haven't already of the bedding job? I'd love to see another users job.. Mine is ugly as hell, but I think it will work extremely well.

Just looked it up, electrical tape is supposedly around 1mm thick.. so I'm already WAY over for tolerance if that is what I'm relying on...