Bedding a chassis gun

[smoothy8500]

Uhhh, he meant (point) 2-3, as in .3 MOA.

[Joefear7]

What are some of the better chassis for those that don't bed?

[longrange1]

2s and 3s, as in 2-3 moa? With the cheap plastic stock, I’m sub moa already. I’d hate for that to increase.

If I had a gun that shot 2 or 3 MOA I’d give it away

[longrange1]

What are some of the better chassis for those that don't bed?

MPA

[sigstroker]

[Joefear7]

MPA

Ignorant question, but is it because the MPA doesn't use a "V" shaped block?

[audiopro74]

[ar15barrels]

Well, chassis showed up today. Set the barell and action in it.
If I snug the front screw first, as I snug the back, the fore the travels away from barell.
If I snug back screw first, as I snug front, barell and forend travel together.

When I say snug, I’m talking only a couple pounds of snug.
And when I say travel, I mean a lot. I didn’t break out the micrometer, but I’d say over 1/16, under 1/8.

If you touch the back screw down before the front screw is tight, the barrel and the reciever stand up out of the chassis.
Then as you tighten the front action screw, you are simply bending the action as the action comes down to the chassis.
Don't do that!
Always tighten the front screw first and the rear screw last.

[audiopro74]

If you touch the back screw down before the front screw is tight, the barrel and the reciever stand up out of the chassis.
Then as you tighten the front action screw, you are simply bending the action as the action comes down to the chassis.
Don't do that!
Always tighten the front screw first and the rear screw last.

[longrange1]

Ignorant question, but is it because the MPA doesn't use a "V" shaped block?

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

People like to believe that, but actual testing of receiver deflection shows otherwise.

[NorCalFocus]

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

Here my issue with this way of thinking. How do you know you’ve gotten better if the gun has possible issues? If you shoot for months and you don’t see improvement, do you blame you or the gun? By having equipment that you know is mechanically right, you can focus completely on you.

Lots of guys think that their rifle is more accurate than they are, but out that guy on a well built rifle and you’ll see that they’d shoot just fine.

You bring up a pretty good point. I think the main thing here is knowing when to make the change. I won’t spend months shooting it to finally say the rifle needs the change. Although I can see why you would think that from my previous post. I’ve got one solid trip on my rifle now, I changed the optic ( got a great upgrade deal from a great calgunner ) and I will probably go out now one or two more times before I try bedding it. There’s a few changes I plan on making to the chassis anyhow. Mostly cosmetic stuff because I also want it to look cool. Before this thread though I probably would have let it be. Not gonna fib about that. But that is why I spend so much time here, if you weed through everything you can here there is some awesome info from members on this site that can aid in becoming a better shooter.

[smoothy8500]

if you weed through everything you can here there is some awesome info from members on this site that can aid in becoming a better shooter.

That is true. The problem is sifting through 95% of the weeds....

[audiopro74]