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I finally picked up my Anschutz 2013/690 ALU stock.

Does anyone find an ideal torque setting for the bedding screws? How many screws are there and are they all underneath?

I'm new to torquing a rifle and need all the advice I can get

if you have a round action, there are 2 screws. if you have a square action, you have 4 screws.

yes, they are all underneath.

when you tighten them, do not tighten one completely and then do the other. start out by tightening one a little, then do the other one a little, then keep going back and forth so that they all tighten at about the same time or rate.

if you're tightening a square action, do the screws in the order of caticorner from each other.

as for how tight to do it, it really depends. personally, my gun likes a high torque. you can play with it on a bench rest to figure out what works best. but, some people tighten it by putting the wrench in and lifting the rifle up by only holding the wrench. (this uses the weight of the rifle to determine the torque.) as for measurements, i think 30-35 inch-pounds is about the norm, or however many newtonmeters that converts to.

i'm not sure about the measurements, so if someone else wants to correct me on that or add to it, that would be great.

Accuracy depends on torque. So you have to try different torques to find the best one.
Start with 4 to 4,5 N.m (1 inch.pound = 0,112985 N.m) for wood stock and 4,5 to 5 for alu stock.

I use about 5.25 Nm as determined by an Anschutz torque wrench for my Aluminum stock 2013/2007. I say "about" as there is no real scale marking between whole Nm numbers. I have a 0-60 in-lb torque wrench on order so this can be refined a bit.