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What brand pillars are recommended for the Remington 700?
I’ve got a laminated stock I’d like to install them on.
I’ve seen the Score-Hi and the Holland. What else is available?


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Score-HI makes one of the best pillar kits available.If you use their boring jig it is about idiot proof.

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I note that a lot of the pillars are made from aluminum.
They must work, but what about/why isn't there galvanic action between the two dissimilar metals?


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Galvanic action is the reason for anode beds. Got a steel fence? Bury old mag wheels every now and then. Connect them with wire and the corporation goes to the aluminum, not the iron, or steel. Problem with pillars? Never.


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Aluminum pillars are what you want to use. I make my own that are custom made for each application as there is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to pillars.

The Score High adjustable ones actually work pretty well...they give the DIY'er some adjustability for length. When the threaded inner adjuster is epoxied in place, they don't move.

I don't advise any direct contact between the pillars and the action. -Al


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I’ve made mine with stainless tubing….


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I have used aluminum pillars, but I have "poured" pillars using Marine Tex. Same material as the bedding so same thermal expansion and contraction rate


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I've had good luck using 3/8" threaded lamp rods. Available most everywhere & inexpensive.

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Now that’s being creative….


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I have some SS tubing I plan to use, but have always wondered about the alumimum.
Lube and very dry conditions may well be parts of the solution.


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Pillar bedding came along with the composite stocks because unlike wood the composite stocks would crush/compress....a laminated wood or a wood stock wont compress it doesn't need pillar bedding glass bedding is all it needs.

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Originally Posted by LFC
Pillar bedding came along with the composite stocks because unlike wood the composite stocks would crush/compress....a laminated wood or a wood stock wont compress it doesn't need pillar bedding glass bedding is all it needs.


This is incorrect.


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Originally Posted by Al_Nyhus
Aluminum pillars are what you want to use. I make my own that are custom made for each application as there is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to pillars.

The Score High adjustable ones actually work pretty well...they give the DIY'er some adjustability for length. When the threaded inner adjuster is epoxied in place, they don't move.

I don't advise any direct contact between the pillars and the action. -Al


That mirrors my experience with Score-High. I like them, and I like their kit. If I were bedding another 700 tomorrow, I would order this kit again.


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Wood stocks are one of the reasons for pillars. A second is that the early fiberglass stocks ( McMillan and others ) were notorious for crushing. The laminated stocks are the most crush resistant, not crush proof. Pillars are a good thing, action blocks are even better.

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No one was pillar bedding before composite stocks came along....I'm not incorrect

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If you have all the answers John Boy then why ask a question ?

Let me quess...to spread your vast knowledge.


The only purpose a pillar block serves is to keep the stock material from compressing......action blocks were designed for composite stocks.

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Pretty testy for a newbie……
You can’t even interpret a question correctly.
I was asking WHICH pillars the good folks here thought best.
I wasn’t asking for historical data. Especially mistaken historical data.
Too much time spent in magazines……


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Originally Posted by LFC
No one was pillar bedding before composite stocks came along....I'm not incorrect


Pillar bedding was being done as early as the '50's on wooden stocks of the day.

When Lee Six and Chet Brown introduced the fiberglass stocks in the late 1960's, pillar bedding became mandatory for them, given the stock making technology of the day.

Laminated wood stocks do move. Properly done pillars are mandatory for best accuracy and to reduce POI changes.

Aluminum pillars remain the gold standard for pillar material. Anything else is a compromise.

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......action blocks were designed for composite stocks.


Action bedding blocks were first designed to be used on early wooden stocks. The epoxies of the day didn't hold up as a bedding compound, even with pillars. The bedding blocks were inletted into wood stocks in an attempt to provide a more stable area for the action to mate to, without using a bedding compound.


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I'd like to see verifiable proof of pillar bedding being done "as early as the 50's"....and also action bedding blocks being designed for wooden stocks.

Until then I'll stick with pillars were first used for composite stocks and the use of a bedding block being designed by Remington for the composite stocks on their Sendora rifles.

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Let’s see….
If a person wanted to describe pillars as ferrules then Mauser was the first to use “pillars”. Or, so no one misconstrues what I’m saying… single pillar / stock ferrule at the rear tang. No need, or room for a front “pillar”….I’ll let you guess the year.


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