Completely different strategy than I've seen. I value your bedding philosophy, materials and methods, as well as your ability to impart knowledge...Thank you from the USA! :)

@Ballisticstudies

5 ай бұрын

Thank you LBurou, that was very kind of you.

as already mentioned, your videos are probably the best out there on bedding professionally, as you have the experience. most bedding how to videos are done by amateurs on KZread, its reassuring seeing a guide from someone of your level. thanks a bunch for taking the time to do these Nathan!!

Best and cleanest example of a bed job ive seen on youtube. Thank you for sharing!

I am so glad that I found this video even if it was 10 years later. The professionalism and care is very evident. I would be satisfied if I can replicate your skills and tricks even at 50% or even 25%. Thank you for this gem of a video.

Iv been looking through bedding videos for the better part of a week now and hadn't quite got the confidence from them like I have this video. You did some real clean work and cared about the details, now I can't wait to do my Howa 1500 action. Thanks!

best bedding job I've ever seen on KZread

Best bedding video I've seen. Thank you!

Beautiful, beautiful job. I've watched all your bedding videos and I'm a huge fan. You are the Bob Ross of rifle bedding and I mean that as the most sincere compliment. I tried one awhile back on my Savage 308 in a Boyds tacticool (wood laminate) stock and swore I'd never do it again because it was such a pain and then I ended up cracking the stock, probably due to overtightening the action screws without any pillars. You've given me the confidence to try again. I think I'll start with my .22lr this time. Thanks man you guys rock.

Bought a couple of containers of Nathans Match grade bedding compound, followed his instructions as per his videos to the letter of the law and proceeded to bed 2 rifles. The bedding compound is really easy to work with being quite viscous and easy to mix. Got 2 beautiful bedding jobs completed. Have bedded a number of rifles over my 70 years but Nathans mix has given me by far the most professional bedding job. Really pleased with the result, especially the Hogue rubberised stock which are not always the easiest stock to bed effectively. Go for it fellas. The process is time consuming but worth it in the finish.This stuff is worth it's weight in gold, and kiwi made !!

@Ballisticstudies

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words Ron.

@anon-yw4wd

4 ай бұрын

I looked if we could buy the products. We cannot. Sad.

I watched probably a dozen bedding videos, bedded a stock today was very rough first time I do have to say! And man I wished I found your video before I did it this morning!!!!

Thanks Nathan for the education. I watch your videos here in California.

@Ballisticstudies

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan, much appreciated.

this video really made me confident in making a bedding on the new rem 700 la rifle im gonna get later this summer. I have made bedding jobbs on other rifles, with diffrent actions, but my goal this time is a real clean one like this, so i will absolutely take my time doing this.

Hey man, this video was brilliant. I learned a lot and am grateful you took the time to show us. I would like to do this to my Xbolt. And totally agree, wifes are good at getting us out of, and sometimes into trouble! Lol

Great job Nathan, thank you for sharing!

Nathan, wasn't the whole idea of having both the Front and Rear Pillars present (I assume, from the McMillan Factory?), to give you both Front and Rear ............... Referrence Points? By removing material off the top of both these Pillars, you have taken this epoxy bedding job, from a Pillar Bedded-Epoxy Bedding job, back to a conventional epoxy bedding job. This is Not the way I do a bedding job, as I believe you have taken a backward step. I would be interested to hear your reason behind, why you have done this? Regards JB

excellent tutorial on the finer points of bedding, thank you sir!

thank you for putting this on utube . i am about to try my first full action bed and your video is by far the best . many thanks .

Having watched several bedding videos, I often wondered how you know where the action will datum off of with respect to where it was from the factory. No one ever mentioned in their videos, maybe they did something along the barrel channel but kept that secret out. Nice job. Keep up the good work.

best detailed bedding job on you tube. period.!

By far, the best tutorial on how to bed a stock. That is one of the best finished products I've ever seen for a bedding job and I shoot F-Class and benchrest so I have seen the omg what did you do to your rifle all the way up to wow, did Picasso bed that for you? kinda bedding jobs. Excellent work to both of you!

The 1st part of the video was pretty good. The last 6 seconds was perhaps the very best?

Hands down best bedding video out. Would have liked some product names, descriptions, and ratio tips for that product but i may have just missed it. Anyways great video, thanks

Fantastic video, thanks for taking the time to give such good info. I'm bedding a wood m40 stock (reproduction) for an m700 build..

Excellent Job!

A lefty! My rifle is lefty too. The jobs looks good. I bedded my M1A, but this seems a bit more difficult. I was thinking of redoing my 700 later.

Looks great! I would have liked to see you shoot it though. Maybe some before and after groups to see what difference is made. Thanks!

Thanks for the video

Excellent result

That is perfection

This is the best video in existence for bedding. Thanks so much for posting it. Gonna use it to do my Savage 12 BVSS this weekend. Any tips for a Savage Single shot action?

great job, very professional! that's a beautiful 700

Nathan please do a video on pillow and glass bedding a Sako 75 and 85 thanks

great video n tips, but do agree wish you has told what kind bedding you use, release agent, powder, thanks great job !

@Ballisticstudies

8 жыл бұрын

+Danny Barber Hi Danny, the compound we use is our own MatchGrade bedding Compound. This can be found on the ballisticstudies.com site.

Do you add a turn or two of tape to the barrel in order to free float it?

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i bedded my rifle action and to avoid leaking epoxy to barrel channel and to free float i used some play dough 2 inch next to the recoil log . every thing was fine n was braked easily and when i assembled every thing together barrel seems not straight in the channel n nose pointing up side 0.2 inches . what could be the reason ? i appreciate your help .

Hey Nathan, building 7mm Practical.. I never thought elastical rubber pulled tight would put enough pressure to do its job. Would really help Going to try it. Cant wait for my practical. Haw much confidence do you have in those LEE dies ? I have my own Manson reamer and was going have my dies cut with that reamer.

Damnit! After all these years watching this for the first time, you aren't able to ship the Match Grade bedding compound to the US!

I see you have found a keeper Nathan - the wife of course :)

I always thought the point of pillar bedding was to have contact between the action and the pillar. That being said, I am slightly confused as to why the tops of the pillars were ground away. Can you explain why one is better than the other? Thanks

what is front dam made of? what compound did you use? anyway great video

This is the video I will be watching when bed my Remington.

Hi, yes, go for it, grind it right back and start over. Yes, I do need to upload more vids!

How do you get all of that clay out of the area where the bolt goes?

@Ballisticstudies

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Jordan, we do not utilize clay in the kits and instead use a very high quality plasticine. This is very easy to remove after bedding as you will find if you purchase this product. All the best.

I'm a novice preparing to bed a long-range hunting rifle, and I was wondering why you opted for a full bed versus just bedding the tang area and the recoil lug area. The partial bedding method certainly seems easier--but maybe not worth it for performance's sake?

Sad we cannot buy your excellent looking products in America. Why is that? It's not like people would not pay the shipping fees. These are bar none the best bedding videos on KZread.

@Ballisticstudies

4 ай бұрын

Yes unfortunately we lost our distributor after their business went down during the lock downs. We can only export bulk surface due to current regulations, but this of course requires a new distributor. Thanks for your kind words.

@anon-yw4wd

4 ай бұрын

Regulations. Government interference is what it is. You're welcome. Hopefully you find a distributor for North America. I am on the other hand going to buy all your books. Those I can get at very good prices. Have a good one.

is it possible to re-bed a stock that was already bedded? Im sure you can grind it down but what concerns me is the recoil lug area...is it possible to grind enough out to re-bed? I have a FN SPR that has a pretty shoddy bedding job Id like to redo if possible. By the way we need you to upload more long range shooting and autopsy/bullet performance vids!

i did pillar bed too

Awesome stuff Nathan well done. I do have a quick question, when re bedding a rifle due to a new barrel, do you simply grind out the old bedding compound and go from there or is there anything else I would need to be a aware of?

@Ballisticstudies

9 жыл бұрын

Hi there, I tend to simply remove the barrel channel bedding and see how it shoots. Often a barrel will shoot just fine fully free floated. But if there is any funny business including recoil lug misalignment, then I fully rebed. I have covered all of this in my third book- The Practical Guide To Bolt Action Rifle Accurizing And Maintenance. This goes through the processes step by step and you don't need to be a smith to work through it. Hope that helps.

Do you tape the recoil lug to provide a little tolerance on the front and sides?

@Ballisticstudies

5 ай бұрын

Hi Elkhuntr, yes, that is correct. The reasoning for this is explained carefully in my books (Practical Guide to Long Range Rifles - 2nd edition / Bolt Action Rifle Accurizing and Maintenance). All the best.

the release agent is graphite powder? appli direct in the action?

@longnameman

5 жыл бұрын

Graphite powder to finish off over the top of the other release agent (kiwi instant boot polish I think - wax)

it is graphite powder ?

Yo Nathan, I am in a forum that is debating on grinding down the pillars. Can you elaborate why is ok?

@Ballisticstudies

10 жыл бұрын

Hi there, if you have a close look at the rifle in the first videos, the pillars are already countersunk so there is no debate in this regard, HS made the call when they designed the stock this way. My next book explains the various methods of pillar bedding in great detail as a part of the accurizing process.

@Ballisticstudies

10 жыл бұрын

Nathan Foster In this last video, we ground the pillar so that it would have a good measure of compound between the pillar and action. If we did not do this, the compound seepage between the pillar and action would result in a very weak layer, about 10 thou / .2mm thick. This brittle layer tends to flake away. We have been researching this for a very long time, hence why I found it better to put all of the information into book form so that readers can study and fully understand the theory and and actual consequences of each method.

@quickclot1

10 жыл бұрын

Nathan Foster I talked to Justin at McMillan yesterday for awhile about what he would recommend for the bedding process. He said that a regular skim bed using Marine Tex or Devcon would have sufficient thickness for wear and tear. I told them that you have been doing ballistic research for like 20 years and that you said about 2mm needs to be removed to give the epoxy enough thickness to no be to brittle or flake off. Justin said that he had been bedding for a very long time using Marine Tex, which wouldn't flake off or crack. I know you have great respect for McMillan, but do you disagree with them here?

Hey not bad for her first time...😊Great job- as always.

What bedding kit is this?

@longnameman

5 жыл бұрын

Found the website ballisticstudies.com match grade bedding compound I think it's called

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Like the last tip! lol Just wondering though...a lot of speculation from guys about bedding the shank of the barrel. I've been told be gunsmiths that the barrel will heat and expand ever so slightly which in turn binds the action/barrel to some degree. It makes sense to me, but I have seen some of the best gun smiths in the country bed the shank. What is the determining factor of whether to bed the shank or not? Appreciate your time.

is that a lefty, or is the vid switched?

@Ballisticstudies

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Blair, yes- its a left hand M700.

epoxi devcon? type?

@longnameman

5 жыл бұрын

Match grade bedding compound from ballisticstudies.com

That's a cluster.

I don't know if you're insane or a genius.

"If you get stuck get your wife to do it." Oh heck no, she burns water when she cooks. I would be doomed.

I want to see more goo squishing everywhere....jesus