Air rifle stock bedding to improve accuracy?

[TCups]

A member on rimfire central asked if bedding the action on an HW-97 might help improve the accuracy.  My initial thought was that bedding was more about what the barrel rested on than the action and that bedding the action on a springer was probably a waste of time.  But on further consideration, I know that keeping the action screws torqued properly does make a big difference in air rifle action, so perhaps I am wrong.  Has any one ever heard of glass bedding the action on a springer air rifle as a way to improve accuracy?  Thanks.

[gmh45345]

I have not tried it but have seen where others have for the better, and not just in the accuracy department.stock screws not working loose,less felt recoil,etc.Now I have mixed up a small batch of epoxy and saw dust and put around the stock screw areas just to harden that part of the stock. Did that on a RWS Mod. 48 that I could not keep screws in even with the blue loctite,no more problem.

No I didn;t glue the screws in and yes I can still take the action out of the stock. he,he

Gary

[michael90t]

Coming from a firearms background I was/am considering bedding the action on my B3 project... it will be both pillarbedded(meaning the screws ride in metal sleeves epoxied into the stock so when you tighten them down its a metal to metal to metal contact and no more worries about screw torque or loosening from wood shrinking/expanding..)AND also glass bedding the action... now there is ALOT more to glassbedding then just squishing some epoxy in there lol its kinda like tuning a pellet rifle... there is tuning one and then there is TUNING one... when you glass bed something your trying to take all stress off the action, you want the action to sit there with no torque on it... properly done you should be able to put a dial indicator on the barrel and loosen and tighten the stock screws and have little to no movement on the dial.. This will allow the natural harmonics to doits thing (like the "artilery hold" ) theoreticaly getting as much accuracy out of it as possible...

Then again you have the other side of things.... some guns respond very well to pressure bedding the barrel(instead of free floating) where with the action properly bedded you add a hump of material at the end of the forearm and playing withdifferent torques you can tune the gun for the smallest groups for a given load(in this case pellet/pressure)

personaly I feel springers could GREATLY benifit from one type of bedding or another.. With the harmonics these things have going on I can see no way a proper bedding of one kind or another wouldnt help out!! LOL