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Is there a good way of removing glass bedding from the chamber area. I recently purchased a very nice Ruger 77RL in 250Savage, not so nice when I removed the barreled action from the stock. Any help would be appreciated.

Dremel

If your very gentle with a heat gun and dental pick I've found it better and cleaner in the end.

Most of the bedding agents get pretty soft around 400* f.

I like a Dremel as you get down to clean wood, can leave roughened for better adhesion, is fast, and I somehow enjoy the old bedding flying all over the place. A little extra room inside the stock where the bedding won't be visible doesn't hurt anything.

HOWEVER, unless you're practiced using a Dremel it can get out of control when you least expect it and cause a major disaster.

All you want is to get the bedding away from around the barrel, right?
If so, a big dowel wrapped with 60 grit can do the job. Then come back with a finer grit. As long as you have one or perhaps two layers worth of masking tape clearance when you're done, you should be just fine.
Make sure you clamp the stock down where you can use some force without things jumping around, it will go much faster.
For cosmetics, you can "slick" the old stuff with a thin application of more epoxy, say with a gloved finger and a warm heat gun.

Is it that the existing glass bed just isn't fitting well or is it just a poor job of bedding that you would like to redo?

If you have a die grinder and ball end die grinder bit, it will come out pretty quickly and you can then replace the bedding with a better product and installation. If it just doesn't look good or fits poorly, the sand paper and or curved rasps and files will work fine for cleaning it up.

Bob