Remount the barreled action in the stock and check again until you can move the dollar bill along the barrel without it snagging or dragging on the stock. If you have a good socket set with deep well sockets, like you would use for spark plugs, you can find one that fits the barrel channel pretty well and wrap some sandpaper around the socket and sand the areas that you marked in pencil. You should be able to get the bill up near the rear sight or just behind it. Then slide the bill from front to back noting with a pencil any spots where the bill drags in the barrel channel. With the handguard off, you can take a dollar bill and run it in the barrel channel under the barrel, by feedint the bill halfway and wrapping it up around teh barrel. It should be a skin tight fit, but not glued in.Īfter bedding, I then screwed the action back into the stock. Use some paste wax or other release agent before bedding the action, so that you do not glue it into the stock. (I could give more detail on teh process, but you can look up bedding arifle action. This was to give better support to the action, and prevent teh action from slamming into the recoil lug and cracking the stock more/again. I then used JB weld to make bedding areas for the action, where the action screws come through the stock to hold the action in place, as well as at the recoil lug area. I put epoxy in teh crack and ran brass screws through the stock to close the crack.
M39 STOCK CRACK TOP CRACKED
Starting out with the cracked stock I was getting groups of 6-8 inches at 100 yds with Brown Bear 203gr hunting ammo. I used it as a project to see what I could do to the stock to improve accuracy. I had a Mosin that turned out to have a cracked stock.