bedding and floating ?

[NOTABIKER]

it is hard to understand how doing this to my savage FV would make it a better shooter. i mean 2 small bolts hold the stock to the rifle. their is no load on ether bolted together. i am sure it works but i just do not understand how.

[Rust]

Bedding an action reduces the amount it can move around when fired due to it being a tighter fit than most factory stocks. And increases the chances that after recoiling it will settle back down into the same spot it was in before the shot was fired.
Floating a barrel insures that at no point the stock touches the barrel and as the barrel whips when the bullet is fired through it it's not banging against the stock. If the barrel is allowed to move freely and the ammunition fired through it is consistent the barrel will follow the same path of motion every time and be in the same spot when the bullet exits the muzzle. It's hard to picture but the barrel actually warps a bit when firing. It also prevents any environmental changes such as temperature or humidity from warping the stock (mostly an issue with wood stocks) and putting different amounts of pressure on the barrel or action than how it was originally sighted in.
There are different methods of bedding, but most of them achieve the same result with the exception of (raised) pillar bedding where the action sits slightly above the rest of the stock and only touches on small pillars that the action screws pass through and tighten the receiver up against.
It has a bigger effect on harder recoiling cartridges than it does on rimfires, but the concept is the same.

[NOTABIKER]

good info, thanks

[JNunez23]

increases the chances that after recoiling it will settle back down into the same spot it was in before the shot was fired

Pretty much. I was on the same boat and not sure if this was worth doing to my 10/22 stock. After a lot of good info, I understood the point of bedding the stock.

I haven't done it yet, but I see the point now.

Good luck man!

[thrillhouse700]

How do you bed a marlin 795? Or is it even worth it.

[Hamstur]

This is a good video explaining barrel floating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEh_GYgZqk

Why bed? Consistency = accuracy. Easier to see actual oscillation on a 50BMG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pVya7eask) but if rifle is properly bedded, it creates a tightly fit together platform and hopefully the barrel is the only thing that's oscillating.