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You’re Welcome! I started this because, it appears that one of the first things mentioned in Accurizing a rifle is to free- float...
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A guy at our club had a rifle that just wouldn't shoot. He eventually filled the barrel channel with silicon and sat the barreled action...
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50 plus years ago my custom rifle maker told me "son you free float a sewer pipe not a rifle barrel." That's about the time...
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You just described my hunt’n rifle! Short shot strings without a “cooling” break, give consistent, small (ish) groups. Remains...
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I have 2 rifles that are full length neutral barrel bedded and they are both very accurate and consistent. And all my other rifles are...
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Pros: -It can and does work. -It can stiffen the fore end of your rifle. -Debris wont enter the gap between the barrel and bedding...
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Yes on the first rifle i bedded. Rem700 mtn dbm. Bought it used and previous owner had removed the pressure pad and hogged out the...
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Actually had it happen! Got seeds from weeds of some sort in the channel between the stock and barrel. Only way I knew that was the case...
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I have never heard of pressure pads in the barrel Chanel therefore never really Payed attention to that other than freefloated or not. I...
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I have done it both ways..... was having trouble getting what I wanted out of a lite barreled 300wm..... got it down to a .75moa...
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I float and shoot it if it doesn't shoot I use 10 or 20 mil tape and put some at the end of the stock and try it again. You can also...
Dec 7, 2024
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I have 4 of the Barrett Fieldcraft rifles (.308 Win, 6mm &6.5 creed and 6.5x55) and all are full length bedded and are excellent...
Dec 7, 2024
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NULA rifles built my Melvin have always been full bed if I'm not mistaken....there are also certain rifles that use the "pressure nub"...
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I have very accurate free floated, 1 very accurate full length bedded, and two very accurate front pressure pad rifles. As with most...
Dec 7, 2024
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I also have an AR-10 in .308 Win (I need to weight it, might be a 15-pounder, too) that shoots the 175 Buffalo Bore.
Dec 7, 2024
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