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Zoli Double Rifle 58 Rifle 255 Above, in Dangerous Game Rifles, Familiarity Is Your Friend Zoli N.E. Double Rifle! Marlin’s X7S Bolt Action Accuracy Problems? Find the Cure! March 2011 No. 255 $5.99 03 Outfitter’s Dream: 7 25274 01240 4 Printed in USA 7mm STW Guide Rifle $5.99 U.S./Canada March 2011 Volume 43, Number 2 ISSN 0162-3593 Sporting Firearms Journal Issue No. 255 A Guide Rifle Original Black Accuracy Problems 8 Spotting Scope - 24 Kenny Jarrett and 48 Finding a Cure Dave Scovill the Bean-Field for the Obscure Evolution John Barsness Terry Wieland 12 .280 Rimless Ross Classic Cartridges - 56 Zoli Nitro Express John Haviland 32 Shooting Double Rifle the Model Elegance, Accuracy 1903 and Potency Pillar Bedding 16 A Historical Phil Shoemaker Light Gunsmithing - Battle Rifle Gil Sengel John Haviland 6.5mm Bargains 64 Loading and Shooting 20 M1 Garands & Marlin Wartime Rifles M1 Carbines by 40 Model Mike Venturino Winchester X7S Down Range - A High- Mike Venturino Performance Bolt Action Brian Pearce Page 8 . Lessons from a 22 House Fire Mostly Long Guns - Brian Pearce Page 24 . Page 32 . 4 www.riflemagazine.com Background Photo: © 2011 Ron Spomer Rifle 255 On the cover . The custom stainless Remington Model Page 56 700 7mm STW is fitted with a Swarovski 3-10x scope mounted in Burris rings and Page 40 bases. (See “Spotting Scope,” page 8, for more details.) Rifle photo by G. Hudson. Mule deer photo by Vic Schendel. Page 48 Leupold & 74 Stevens . The First Century Book Reviews - Ron Spomer Issue No. 255 March 2011 Weatherby’s 82 Darling Sporting Firearms Journal Walnut Hill - Publisher/President – Don Polacek Terry Wieland Publishing Consultant – Mark Harris Editor in Chief – Dave Scovill Associate Editor – Lee Hoots Managing Editor – Roberta Scovill Assisting Editor – Al Miller Senior Art Director – Gerald Hudson Production Director – Becky Pinkley Contributing Editors Page 64 . John Haviland Ron Spomer Brian Pearce Stan Trzoniec Clair Rees Mike Venturino Gil Sengel Ken Waters Terry Wieland Advertising Advertising Director - Stefanie Ramsey Page 56 . 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Although all possible care is exercised, the publisher cannot accept Tel: (928) 445-7810 Fax: (928) 778-5124 responsibility for lost or mutilated manuscripts. © Polacek Publishing Corporation 6 www.riflemagazine.com Background Photo: © 2011 Ron Spomer Rifle 255 PILLAR BEDDING LIGHT GUNSMITHING by Gil Sengel • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • he problem that pillar bed- bedding at one moment in his- T ding addresses has been tory. The wood could still warp known for a very long time. That and take the bedding surface is, wood expands, shrinks, com- with it. Grinding out the old presses, warps and bends (some- epoxy and rebedding was the times all at the same time). only solution. Serious hunters have always Eventually it was determined been annoyed by this trait. the real way to control wood was No doubt early mammoth to replace it. A big piece of alu- hunters were also affected. After minum called a bedding block all, anyone chasing those critters was epoxied between the action carrying only a pointed rock tied and the trigger guard/floorplate to the end of a stick has to be assembly of bolt guns. It was considered serious. For exam - then milled out just like the stock ple, after lashing a new spitzer would have been. Invisible from pointed rock to his spear shaft, This hot glue-like material was the outside, the stock looked Thud the hunter leans it against picked out of the recoil lug area normal in all respects. Everyone the wall of his cave. That night, of the Model 70 stock. was happy, but the work was Thud’s teenage son comes in time consuming and expensive. late and trips over the spear. (Why but it won’t hit where the sights Then came stocks made from teenagers do such things is still say it should. This part is not the same materials as bass boats not fully understood.) It falls good. and toothbrush handles. These over and lands near the campfire. All manner of solutions to were supposedly the answer. De- The next morning our hunter is wood’s behavior have been tried, velopment of the gunstock had running late. He picks up his from inletting metal rods into the reached perfection – until it was spear, can’t remember leaving it stock to soaking the thing in vari- discovered that in hot weather there, attributes that to his get- ous chemicals. Nothing really the plastic got squishy and even ting old and dashes out of the worked until the advent of epoxy fiberglass could compress from cave. On the first opportunity compounds. Even then the epoxy guard screw pressure. Back to for a mammoth in weeks, what (generally called glass bedding the drawing board. seems like a perfect throw hits because glass fibers are added to Now pillar bedding is all the too far back and doesn’t pene- the mix) only guarantees perfect rage. It is far cheaper than a bed- trate. It turns out the spear warped a bit as it lay by the campfire the night before. Instead of falling over dead, the mammoth lets out a blood-cur- dling scream, tosses Thud into the bushes and squashes his hunting buddy before running off. Oh, well, looks like leftovers again tonight – and one can only imagine what leftovers were like at this point in history! Fortunately, hunters today have it better than Thud. Wood warp - age, expansion, etc. have no bal- listic effect on a bullet. Its energy Rough up the receiver ring area before applying glass-bedding compound. and trajectory are unchanged, The stock must be properly bedded before installing pillars. 16 www.riflemagazine.com Rifle 255 ding block and almost as good in wood; in plastic/fiberglass stocks it solves the compression prob- lem. Pillars will, of course, do nothing to prevent a forend from warping. They will also not stop the wood from twisting or bend- ing in the action or grip area. Rubber bands hold the barreled receiver in the stock when glass bed- Pillar bedding consists of sim- ding. Placement here is for bedding the rear tang area. ply placing solid aluminum or steel spacers (pillars) between were called stock spacers and the bottom of a bolt-action re- glued in place. And, yes, Mauser ceiver and its trigger guard/floor- used a similar idea long before plate assembly. Usually .5 inch in that but didn’t glue them into the diameter and epoxied in place, stock. Some early bolt-action tar- these pillars are drilled to allow get guns had the outside of the the guard screws to pass through pillars/spacers threaded. They the center. Also, the idea isn’t were then screwed into the wood new. Forty years ago the pillars to overcome the glue problem. Nothing is really new. The Featherweight Winchester Model 70 XTR shown in the illus- trations was picked because it had several bedding problems. Bedding pillars are easily made One was that it had some kind of on a metal lathe, or they can be hot glue-looking compound ap- purchased. plied to the recoil lug area by the factory. The barreled action was glued in the stock and couldn’t be removed! Heat eventually broke this bond. The rifle was purchased new in 1986. Pillar bedding is easy to do, but certain rules must be followed or A bedding pad is shown at the little will be accomplished. Obvi- forend of the stock. Its use is ex- ously, it is necessary to get the plained in the text. bedding right before adding pil- lars. In the case of the Model 70, all the hot glue had to first be re- moved. When this was accom- plished, it was discovered the barreled receiver only touched the stock in two places: a bed- Drill out the guard screw holes to ding pad at the forend tip and accept the pillars. under the rear tang. Thus the receiver ring area and first one inch of the barrel had to be properly bedded with a couple of applications of Brownells ACRA- GLAS. The barreled receiver was held in the stock by heavy rubber bands at the two contact points of forend tip and rear tang.
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