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stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-bolt
@ 12:55 pm (GMT) |
Jeremy TyeI am doing this with a mate who also has an x-bolt and I hope is a lot more confident than me! Having purchased Nathans kit and read his pdf instructions many times we are about to 'go down the rabbit hole' and stiffen and re-bed our x-bolts. Should we just do front and end or full length? |
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@ 09:59 am (GMT) |
Nathan FosterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltHi Jeremy, the Browning bolt action is very poorly designed, regardless of the often excellent accuracy. These rifles are notorious for causing gunsmith's grief as I wrote about (and why) in the book series. Its a bit like Honda cars (and Disco's), a lot of customers like them, mechanics loathe them. These rifles are doubly compromised in NZ after having suppressors fitted to their piddly thin barrels to tame recoil. Recoil which is increased via a poor stock design and again- a very thin barrel. You must make sure that you have not cooked your barrels or fouled them to an unsafe level. If they have seen heavy use with suppressors, do not expect bedding to work miracles.These preliminary factors aside, we have many customers who set about stabilizing and bedding with good results. This sees out the life of the Browning adequately. You will need to avoid both full length and front / rear bedding. Instead, bed from the front of the trigger fowards. You will see a bridge in front of the trigger in the stock, bed that bridge and forwards from there, about an inch or so into the barrel channel. Do not bother with the tang as the Browning is a cluster... of moving parts at the tang where the safety is located. Simply use the entire tang as your height ref. This will keep the job relatively simple and provided the trigger is crisp (and hopefully not made of plastic as some Brownings are) and the barrel is sound and not baked from some wonder muffler, the rifles may shoot well. Do keep in mind that some Brownings lack enough magazine length to allow you to seat close to the lands as a means to optimize accuracy with hand loads. Therefore, consider neck sizing to aid concentricity, especially during the jump. Fortunately, Browning make a very good bore so these rifles are capable of excellent accuracy. Again, if set up right, the rifles will do all that you ask of them. All of these elements are covered in the book series. Buy once, cry once. Now speaking of NZ baked rifles, a guy passed on some cases to me a short while back. I went to run them through my FL die but they would not pass over the expander button (they should not have touched it when being fed in). Carbon caking strikes again. This rifle was being fed Hornady SF ammo, going as fast as my hottest hand loads. The guy is lucky that he did not have a case rupture. So to all of you guys who are using mufflers, make sure your chambers are kept clean. |
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@ 10:38 am (GMT) |
Jeremy TyeRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltI am picking up that you are not a Browning fan but really appreciate your advice Nathan. Both rifles are relatively new with 250 or less rounds through them. Mine can shoot sub MOA groups at 100m.... so why are we bothering to do this. Because the factory bedding looks like a dollop of segull shit and just because we can, it seems a fun thing to do and hopefully make the accuracy more consistant! |
@ 05:19 pm (GMT) |
Anthony carterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltThanks for the advice and pointers on the x bolt bedding 2nd rifle also sub moa @100 mtrs3 in the red and 1 fouler  [b]
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@ 05:46 pm (GMT) |
Anthony carterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-bolt
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@ 05:47 pm (GMT) |
Anthony carterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltQuote:
hmmm no image links sorry my bad |
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@ 06:22 pm (GMT) |
Anthony carterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltwas holding my tong the wrong way i think |
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@ 06:28 pm (GMT) |
Anthony carterRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltok very last try lol
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@ 02:03 pm (GMT) |
SureshRe: stiffening fore-end & re-bedding x-boltHi Anthony,Did your groups get better after the bedding or did they stay about the same? I got an xbolt before reading Nathan books so wasn't aware of the down sides to the rifle and mainly got it because there wasn't many options in the calibre i wanted that had a 24 inch barrel. Given the factory bedding is highly likely to fail at some point i'm gonna look at rebedding at some point. I'm not hunting long range but just interested in maintaining it's accuracy. |
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