Glass bedding over-under shotguns

[AKSkeeter]

I have a friend who specializes in building fine stocks.
He always glass-beds over unders.
Last year I met up with him in eastern Montana for our annual hunt.
He looked at my 40 year old Citori and told me I should have it bedded.
I did not. The next month I slipped on ice and cracked the stock exactly where he said the can crack.
Where the stock is mated to the receiver the wood can be ~1/4 inch thick.

S & S in Polson, Montana installed a new stock for me and they glass bedded it. They told me they always glass bed their stocks.

 

[Coach 20-Gauge]

I'm puzzled as to why you think glass bedding wd have prevented the break.

I glass-bed every rifle I want to be accurate, but have never bedded a shotgun stock. I have always thot it was a gimmick in shotguns.

Don't tell Mike I said that, though.

 

[AKSkeeter]

I'm puzzled as to why you think glass bedding wd have prevented the break.

I glass-bed every rifle I want to be accurate, but have never bedded a shotgun stock. I have always thot it was a gimmick in shotguns.

Don't tell Mike I said that, though.

If you have an over/under, take the stock off from the receiver and look at how thin the sides are where
the wood is mated to the receiver. A crack along the grain there would be strengthened by epoxy
glass bedding that fills the wood pores.

Or talk to Mike at S & S who specializes in fine shotgun stock work.

 

[Coach 20-Gauge]

I'd worry more about how to make sure I don't slip and fall on ice again. I'm sure bedding helps a bit, I just doubt it will prevent many breaks that result from falling with your gun. I'm in my 65th year of hunting with shotguns. If I ever have one's stock break I will reconsider going to the trouble of bedding.

 

[Birdman2]

I have a friend who specializes in building fine stocks.
He always glass-beds over unders.
Last year I met up with him in eastern Montana for our annual hunt.
He looked at my 40 year old Citori and told me I should have it bedded.
I did not. The next month I slipped on ice and cracked the stock exactly where he said the can crack.
Where the stock is mated to the receiver the wood can be ~1/4 inch thick.
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S & S in Polson, Montana installed a new stock for me and they glass bedded it. They told me they always glass bed their stocks.

That was a clean break. I had one like that once on a Fox. My Smith glued it back together with epoxy. I've used it for 10 years since.

 

[LC Smith]

I know of many guys that glass in their LC Smith side plates. They are well know for stress cracking right behind the rear of the side plate.