You can break or pop an action loose from the stock by removing all the guard screws and giving the barrel a short, fast rap on a wood bench while holding the rifle by the stock and forearm. You only want to break the action loose, do not keep rapping until the action starts to rise up out of the action. Once the action is broken loose, work it up out of the action slowly, take your time here so that the recoil lug remains as vertical as possible. You don't want the action to rock at too much of an angle. If the action won't pop loose by this method then drop the whole assy in the freezer overnight and try again in the A.M.
I tried your described method as well as a few others without sucess. I don't want to break the stock. The action is completly loose at the rear tang and the trigger area. It is locked tight at the recoil lug. I currently do my bedding jobs by doing the recoil lug and back to the front action screw first, always with 2 or 3 business cards in the forend to establish barrel clearance and free floating of the barrel. I draw everything up tight with the action screws and allow it to dry overnight. I do the rear tang next and allow it to dry and the front of the recoil lug and the first 2 inches of the barrel last. It takes me a few nights but when I'm done everything looks like it was done at the same time. By doing it this way I can have a little more control over the entire process and a lot more margin for error instead of doing everytrhing at one time. It also gives me a lot less of the bedding compound to break free of at one time. I always go pretty heavy on the release agent and have found that the release agent supplied by Acra glass works very good but they don't give you enough of it. That's why I keep an aresol spray release agent on hand. The last part of my process is the one I'm having trouble with on this particular stock. I did use an old can of aresol release agent. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> There is not much for it to be stuck permanetly too so I'm hopeful. I'm gonna try the deep freeze in the next day or 2. If I can I'll post a few pictures. The current bedding job turned out real nice looking so far. Just would like to be able to remove the action for cleaning. I have bedded 10 or 12 other rifles so far with pretty good results. A couple gunsmiths I like to use either charge way too much or simply don't like to do them anymore <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> that's why I do my own. 163bc
