Floated barrel

mike Crawford said:
If floating a barrel is better for accuracy how come so many guns are around that you can not put a bill under the barrel ..
If floating the barrel is a good thing why do they not come from the factory that way ..
They have to fit the stock .. Why not take out enough wood to allow the barrel to sit in the stock and the barrel and stock not touch .
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Did you read post 7 ?

Many rifles come with a pressure point in the forend because it is easier for the factory to do that. Machine the stock or mold it... screw the metal in tight and it will bend to fit the stock or the stock will bend to fit the metal.

With a wood stock it often will shoot better with the barrel floated and the action bedded... a bill's clearance isn't enough though... underneath it should have more... point of impact is more consistent with varying shooting positions when the barrel floats.

Cheap plastic stocks are not worth doing anything to...
 
Ok then .. the factory does not do a good job fitting the stock .. they can not or will not make a stock that will fit onto the barrel with out needing work to be free floating ...
Then .. If you buy a gun .. with a wood stock . .. New or used ..
Before yuo sight it in or even shoot or attempt to mount a scope on it ... you should remove the barrel from the stock and remove some wood so the barrel does not touch the stock . if it more than a bill so be it .. and this will improve accuracy
Is this true or not .. I guess that is more close to what the question should have been ..
 
I have had many customers starting back in 1970 would buy a new rifle and not even shoot it. They would have the action bedded, the barrel floated, crown refinished, the trigger set lighter and crisper, the scope mounted... and then they would go to the range... they knew to get the best out of the rifle this was required... and all that was left for them to do was experiment with loads... Many knowledgeable shooters do that.

Any bedding done needs to be done stress free...

Rarely a barrel shoots better bedded than floating...
 
Thank you .. I knew if I asked the question enough different ways I would find the answer ..
I would guess that if you went to hunting camps and peoples homes the next hundred guns you picked up very few would be floating barrels .
As far as price ..I bought a gun ten years ago and paid 1100 dollars for just the gun .. And you can not put a bill under the barrel ..
It shoots good .. But the question was if I floated it would it shoot better ..
Once you take the wood out .. There is no going back .. Unless you have a tube of tub calking laying around to fill the gap back in LOL
 
But I still find it hard to believe a gun company can not make a stock to fit a gun properly .
I just rebuilt a chev motor .. I ordered parts from Federal Mogul for a motor that was built in 1969 in Detroit .
I do not know just where federal Mogul has the factory but I am sure it is not at the other end of the same building my motor was built45 years ago .. But they send me bearings and seals .. And they fit .. I did not have to file them .. Or sand them .
The motor was bored 30 thousand .. the pistons fit the holes ...
But a gun company can not make a wooden stock .. They have the gun .. they built the gun with standards .. the gun has to be good enough and close properly as not to blow up .. So they can make a gun to within a one thousands of a inch but the stock is not made to fit the gun
 
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