Bedding a mosin worth it?

carbine85 · Dec 17, 2012

The cork acts basically as what a bull barrel does, with the military stocks the cork is a cushion that squeezes the barrel when the handguard clips are put on which in turn makes the harmonics move the same everytime which makes more consitant shots

Agreed.
You may have to play with it to find the sweet spot(s). Supporting the barrel at the receiver and just in front of the front sling holes is where it's normally done.
You can get a roll of rubberized cork gasket material from Autozone for around $5.00

Slamfire · Dec 17, 2012

I bedded original Finnish Mosin Nagants in their military stocks. I did not pillar bed, I just routed enough wood to form a 1/4" thick bedding layer.

I did not play with barrel corking or barrel fit in the barrel channel.

Overall it made the groups circular and the groups did not move as much when I changed bullet weights.

I was actually surprised on how well Soviet Nagants shot even with the receivers bowed by horrible bedding. I bedded some of them also.

Accuracy will be limited by barrel quality.

Back in the 80's C.E Harris wrote an article in the American Rifleman on Mosin accuracy. He changed the service rifle barrels to custom barrels. The rifles shot better, on a par with 30-06 rifles as I recall.

JBrady555 · Dec 18, 2012

Stock just showed up. I layed the receiver/barrel in the stock and took this crappy cell phone pic, but here it is. The stock still has some spots where I have to sand or dremmel so that the receiver sets all the way down in the stock. The fit is too tight now for the stock to fully accept the receiver.

Whacked · Dec 19, 2012

If your going to bed a Mosin, few things you gotta do first.
Get the Soviet Union National Anthem playing on the stereo to bring out the pride.
Few bottles of Vodka to loosen things up and get in the mood......

OK, with your Boyds stock I wouldnt be worried about bedding right now.
Get things to fit correctly, make sure the barrel is free floating, then take it to the range and let her roar.
Accuracy problems try handloads or different bullet weights
How is the trigger? I busted the trigger sear/bolt spring on my M44 and replaced it with a NOS Finnish sear/bolt spring from crsurplusspring.com and I am quite pleased with the result. smooth trigger pull all the way to a clean break and zero trigger slop with the bolt cocked or not. If you dont want to spend the $16 you can do the trigger mod that accomplishes the same thing: shim the sear/bolt spring and add a trigger spring to remove trigger slop, cost you a soda can and a spring from a stapler remover or bag clip. plenty of vids on youtube showing this mod.

still have problems then I would look into bedding the stock and if you go that far might as well pillar bed.

Keep in mind these rifles are combat accurate, not sub-MOA competition accurate rifles. Altho Caribou has some wicked videos of the hunts he does with his Mosin. Check those out.

JBrady555 · Dec 19, 2012

Whacked said:
If your going to bed a Mosin, few things you gotta do first.
Get the Soviet Union National Anthem playing on the stereo to bring out the pride.
Few bottles of Vodka to loosen things up and get in the mood......

OK, with your Boyds stock I wouldnt be worried about bedding right now.
Get things to fit correctly, make sure the barrel is free floating, then take it to the range and let her roar.
Accuracy problems try handloads or different bullet weights
How is the trigger? I busted the trigger sear/bolt spring on my M44 and replaced it with a NOS Finnish sear/bolt spring from crsurplusspring.com and I am quite pleased with the result. smooth trigger pull all the way to a clean break and zero trigger slop with the bolt cocked or not. If you dont want to spend the $16 you can do the trigger mod that accomplishes the same thing: shim the sear/bolt spring and add a trigger spring to remove trigger slop, cost you a soda can and a spring from a stapler remover or bag clip. plenty of vids on youtube showing this mod.

still have problems then I would look into bedding the stock and if you go that far might as well pillar bed.

Keep in mind these rifles are combat accurate, not sub-MOA competition accurate rifles. Altho Caribou has some wicked videos of the hunts he does with his Mosin. Check those out.

Thanks for the info. I just started another thread close to this one dealing with the fit work. I've got pictures in it too, when you get a chance I'd like to get your input over in that thread too. This is the first time I've fit anything other than pipe and boiler tubes, lol.

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