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I am about to assemble another rifle and am considering full length bedding it. Melvin Forbes is a gifted gun guy and does it but does any one else? None of the smiths locally do. The action will be a Rem 700, trued and squared, with a PacNor barrel of Rem mag. taper in a Brown Kevlar stock. Your thoughts please on full length bedding rather than barrel re-enforce bedding or full floating.

Many gunsmiths install stocks with full-length bedding, especially those who specialize in walnut stocks. I've done a lot of stocking myself, and FL bed quite a bit. Several of my most accurate rifle feature FL bedding, inclusing my NULA .30-06 and my two Serengeti (now Kilimanjaro) rifles with laminated stocks. I also own some custom rifles with non-laminated walnut stocks that really shoot.

There are two big things to look out for: The forend must be pretty stiff, and the bedding must be ALL the way out to the end of the forend.

If the forend is too flexible, accuracy probably won't be all that good, and if the bedding doesn't go out to the very tip, then accuracy will suck.