I have a heavy varmint benchrest rifle that was built 30 or so years ago. It was never as accurate as I thought it should be. Not accurate enough to win trophies at my local matches. It’s a Remington 700 in an aluminum sleeve, glued into an old McMillan stock, no bolts. I bought it from an old time shooter who used it at matches from the Rosebud to the Cactus Classic, through temperature and pressure extremes. This spring I took it to the gunsmith who originally built it (Arnold Erhardt) and asked him to remove the stock so that I could have it repainted properly. He tried twice but could not remove it. I said fine, and thought the bedding can’t be the problem.
My most accurate rifle is based on a Swindlehurst action bolted into a glass-bedded stock, not glued-in, no pillars, and no recoil lug.
The thing is, I don’t feel confident that there isn’t something wrong with the bedding of the glued-in rifle. I can’t take it out and re-glue it. So I go through several scopes and barrels only to discover it shoots the same no matter what I do. That is driving me crazy and driving me toward selling it.
Lawrence