Screwed up bedding job...should I redo?

[old_dood]

No, why would you? The bedding material on top of the pillars is doing the same job as the pillars themselves. When pillars came back in vogue in the early '70s we poured them using Devcon F aluminum putty, rough bedded the action with the F then a final shim coat of F2.

At this point you only need open the screw holes to 5/16" for screw shank clearance, put it together and shoot it.

Bill

do you mean you actually made the pillars out of aluminum putty? thanks for the advise. I really didn't want to do the job over again. This is the first Savage I've ever bedded. I'd previously only done Remingtons which didn't have a barrel nut for me to overlook.