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My son just bought a new .204 Rem 700 vlss and i had a gunsmith do mine and was trying to save him some $ and was wanting to try this on our own and i had Just a few questions.
1 has anybody did this on there own rifle
2 Is it hard to do
3 Any instructions out there on how to do it.

Yes, I have did it. No, it's not hard. Try 6mmbr website, and Brownells.com for instructions. I use Devcon 10110 for bedding compound and Kiwi clear shoe polish for relaease agent.

It is easy to do. I now do the bedding jobs on most of my friends rifles...but there is a catch. I HELP them do the first one and they are on their own after that.

Buy a kit read the directions several times, do a dry run, and go from there.

Just finished my B & C Gold Medalist Tactical stock for my 223 AI 1:9 twist Savage.

maj: Over the years I've done about 40 rifles, mostly my own, but many for friends too. It is not that hard, you just need to pay attention to the instructions of the compound you use, and use the release agent properly.

1. Yes, I've done many
2. It's not that hard
3. Most gunsmithing books detail it, also instructions on the net, some over on 6mmBR.

I use and prefer Brownells Accraglass Gel over Marine Tex and some others I've tried. You'll also want to have a Dremel tool for the stock work, black electrical tape, masking tape, also modeling clay. I keep all this on hand all the time to make the jobs easier.

Every rifle so bedded has always shot better. Pay attention to the proper bedding of the recoil lug, as it does NOT get full contact all around, only the back side of the lug, nowhere else. I always bed about 2" forward of the lug also to give the barrel proper support under the chamber area and float the rest. I bed the tang area also.

Read up on it first, be careful, and you'll be surprised at how easy it is. Bed the rifle on Saturday, take it apart on Sunday, shoot it the following weekend.

I've bedded all my actions. The last one was just as easy as the first.
The first one was much more stressful

The last two guns I used JB Weld. No complaints. Seems just as strong as the better bedding kits on the market and stronger than some others I've used.

The last one I did a couple years ago I went with ScoreHi Gunsmithing's kit instead of Brownell's. It was a Howa Varminter Supreme laminated stock and I got ScoreHi's pillar and glass kit. They offer a choice between brown or dark grey epoxy. Nice people to deal with and they have lots of info on their website.
Just me, but I liked their kit better than the Accuraglass.

On Edit:Oh man I forgot, Rick's right, a Dremel tool takes all the work out of it!

When floating the barrel is the dollar sliding free test good enough

I would go for at least a credit card. More is always better.

Much depends on your stock and barrel flexibility.

You should not be able to flex your stock to the point it can touch the barrel.
Barrels flex/whip upon firing. Sporters more than varmints, varmints more than bulls, so on.

Put those two variables together and I give mine all the room I can.

I would go for at least a credit card.

Right. My last one was the first one I'd ever used a Dremel on and I started out REAL CAREFULLY and slow and found if I angled the round sanding drum in relation to the front and rear of the stock, I could go along the top inner edge of the foreend real smooth and straight which saved a lot of time rather than sanding by hand.