Reeder Custom Guns - Bedding An SKS?

Long, long ago (Pre-Clinton Ban) I bought a ratty ole SKS in one of those black plastic after-market stocks. I shot it a few times & then put it away. I recently took it out & shot it at paper for the first time. Very inconsistent with vertical stringing. There is vertical slop between the action & the stock towards the rear of the action. I'm guessing about 1/8" to 3/16". Probably some side to side play, but not as noticeable. I glass bed a bolt action rifle once & that was fairly straight forward process. Not sure how to address the SKS due to the lack of action screws to secure the action to the stock. (Trigger group snaps into place with action & sandwiches the stock between them)

Anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this?

Thank you.

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the SKS will benefit no doubt. Just don't spare the release agent! Rough up the stock surface so the glass will stick to it. Get nasty and it will go good.

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It was printing in two locations, bouncing back and forth. I bedded one side, then the other, then the rear. Took a few days. The results were worth it with the ammunition it liked.
Loaned it to my brother in law who was worried about y2k, never got it back.

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How do you set the position/spacing from the action & the trigger group? That is where the majority of the slop is. I need to fill enough to remove the slop, but still allow the trigger group to snap into the action. The only thought I've come up with is some form of shims.

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If you need,/want the trigger forward slide it forward and snap in place. I may have done the back first. This was back in the 90’s
Just do a little at a time, most of the fore/aft movement goes away after the first couple of bedding operations.
Use the clay to keep the bedding in the small areas.
Wish i was there to see it again, but you can add bedding over bedding.
My sks was russian, made in 1954, and was pretty nice. The bedding and clay dams took quite a few days, my sons thought i was crazy even back then. If the bedding goes where you don’t want it, you have to grind it off or file it. Mine may have had some bedding on the bottom latch at the rear.
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Bedding An SKS?

I've glass bedded airguns and muzzleloaders

I’ve glass bedded a russian sks

How?

Modeling clay,

I can do that. Thanks.