I agree with Rick...
Bedding the barrel of a rifle with a separate forearm and butt-stock doesn't make much sense since the receiver lays
between the two SEPARATE pieces of wood and the forearm is attached TO the barrel rather than having the barrel resting (and therefore "bed-able") IN the forearm of a one-piece stock such as you find on bolt-action rifles.
I doubt that you'd get ANY benefit from "bedding" the forearm to the barrel.
If your Model 99 is typical, you should be able to get 3-shot groups that hover around that magical "one minute of angle" (1 inch @ 100 yards) from your rifle using a rifle rest and sand bags under the forearm and under the toe of the stock on a solid bench-rest.
Of course, this assumes you have a good scope and can SEE the bullseye reasonably well at 100 yards. I've found that I can see well enough with my "99's" 3x-9x by 40mm variable scope set on "9x" to average �-inch, 3-shot groups @ 100 yards off "the bench" using my .300 Savage hand-loads.
With a target scope or my varmint rifle's 6x-24x by 50mm scope on the 99, I'm sure I could do somewhat better, but any big game rifle that can average �-inch groups @ 100 yards is more than "good enough" in the accuracy department. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I noticed you live in Wexford, Pennsylvania... I take the next exit (Valencia) 'past the Wexford exit on I-79 North every time I go over to my hunting buddy's home (just off Rt.228 a few miles east of Mars, PA)... I wonder if both of you might be members (and know each other) of that shooting club that lays just south of Rt.228 about half way between the two of you?
My hunting buddy has a cozy cabin up in the Moshannon State Forest (about 20 miles N.E. of DuBois, PA.) between Parker Dam and S.B. Elliott State Park where we get together for our annual deer camp.
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.
