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Both forend and butt stock cracks, in fact I have repaired numerous other models as well, just wish I was good enough to make the wrist cracks invisible.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^ no mater what bedding compound you use.

I've done a lot of guns with Acraglass Gel with no issues, but most people don't slop Hoppes 9 into the bedding so I can't say if that's a problem or not, but I've not seen it.

Mix in powdered aluminum or stainless if you want to, especially for magnums, add a dye if you want.

It works very well if mix accurately& allowed to harden correctly.

Marine Tex & Devcon also work just fine, but I prefer to work with the Acraglass Gel. For any kind of crack repair, the original Acrglass is unequalled, IME.

YMMV

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the biggest mistake people make is too thick of bedding compound... but I understand why as they don’t want to glue the rifle to the stock.

Use clear shoe polish on your stock screws in the threads so they don’t get glued either..

I had the same experience on three rifles with two different Miles Gilbert kits. I thought it was me screwing up the mix, so I kept trying. My M70 has little bubbles of bedding squeezing out here and there three years later. It needs to be taken down and redone. I guess I'll use Acraglas gel this time to match the wood.
The MG kits are nice with all the "stuff" that come in them, but my experience with the epoxy has been very poor.

That's how I feel. All the stuff, bad epoxy.

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