A month or 2 ago I placed an order from McMillan for a stock. It will have a full length aluminum bedding block stretching from the action to the end of the forearm. Depending on how much the action moves back and forworth when I seat it in the stock but loose. I'm planning to have it bedded. But let's say it I drop my action in the stock and it has little to no movement, and because of the bedding block I'm able to torque it to 65 inch pounds. Should I or should I not still bed the action?
dbaldu2014-03-30T10:56:14Z
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Definitely get the action into the stock and try it. The chances are very high that a stock like this will need nothing else.
I only have experience w/ Bell & Carlson aluminum frame stocks, but I'd be very surprised if there was much play in the McMillan version. The three B&Cs I have (for Remington 700s) were all very tight w/o any bedding, although all were eventually skim bedded. As others have suggested, try out the new stock and see how it works, then bed it later if you have the inclination to do so.
Why not shoot a few boxes through it with the new stock and see if it provides you with adequate accuracy for whatever purpose you have? Then, if it's still not good enough, ask for advice from McMillan. I bet a company that sells accurized rifles for somewhere between $6,000 and $10,000 knows a thing or two about how to make a rifle shoot better, especially when you're using one of their stocks.
Why not wait until it comes before you go all wonky, then ask McMillan for advice. But if it were me I'd drop the action in, torque it to McMillan's specs, shoot it, and she how it shoots. My guess is nothing else will be required. McMillan knows what they are doing.