Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors 99 bedding post!

I completely agree with Gary's more detailed assessment of this idea;

1st - accurately drilling the butt stock for this over-size post will be the biggest challenge, and by far the best opportunity of wrecking the stock beyond use, DONT DO THIS on your only available stock,
2nd - careful inletting of all the contact surfaces (..which is consistently GREAT on all the factory stocks I've seen, across 100 years of production!) is the key to the long-term health of the butt stock wood, and our consistent shooting precision
3rd- I have found it beyond my patience to detail any stock inletting further than about 75% of the theoretical "perfect", (..and my "perfect" is probably only about 50% of Gary's "acceptable"!), so..,
4th - epoxy bedding the lower tang heal, both vertically and horizontally takes care of my remaining 20%, (..95% is pretty darn good for my 99 ability!).


I put cellophane tape on the metal as my release agent, and just snug up the stock bolt to seat the wet epoxy, then remove the tape for final fit.