The bedding on the Vanguard RC is quite sophisticated and I'm not changing it.
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I'm curious about Vanguard bedding being "sophisticate"...
If it was mine, I'd glass the action free float the barrel.
I totally agree with this.
Also, after doing this, if it doesn't bring the group size down to suit you, try putting a pressure point out at the end of the fore end. I once had a guy bed a rifle for me that would shoot 1/2" 5 shot groups before he did any thing to it and free floated it to boot and it opened up from 1/2-5/8 ish to over 2" groups. Pissed me off to the heigth of pisstivity. Then I got to checking around with various local bench rest gurus and one gave me some papers written by Warren Page on bench rest shooting that suggested a thinner barrel sometimes likes a slight upward pressure out near the end of the fore end. If you think about it many factory rifles come with a pressure point there. I did this and it shrunk the groups back tighter than before. And I'm talking 5 shot groups, not 3. Keep this in mind but just do one thing at a time. Don't do it all at once or you won't know what helps or what screws you up further.
