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SwaTT
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Discussion with shooting friends;; For best results: Should one always Bed the Action when Floating the barrel? and/or always Float the barrel when Bedding the Action? tks sam
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bgall
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All my Mauser sporters have the action and first inch or so of barrel glass bedded. The barrels start out floated; upward pressure against the barrel is added if needed to tighten group size. Incidentally, the adjustable weight/length devices such as the Win/Browning BOSS really can fine tune a decent barrel. Too bad they're butt ugly.
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pragerr
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# #Discussion with shooting friends;; For best results: Should one always #Bed the Action when Floating the barrel? and/or always Float the #barrel when Bedding the Action? tks sam #
Leave out the word 'always' and the definitive answer is 'it depends'. Or does your question mean 'do you float or bed first?' Throw in the fact that *some* rifles seem to shoot better with a pressure point under the barrel. Personally I've never owned one of those. So I float, then bed. Floating the barrel assures you that the bedding is not influenced by stock/barrel interference. Just in case you find you want a pressure point, it can be accurately added with epoxy. Bill Van Houten (USA Ret)
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Dollhopf
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Current state of the art among benchrest shooters is to bed the action and float the barrel. Target and varmint rifles have to maintain the same point of impact over many shots. To do this requires a heavy barrel that cools and heats evenly. A big game rifle, OTOH, has to have the same point of impact with two, or at most three shots. On a rifle such as this, any contact between the barrel and the forearm would prevent even cooling and heating.
My gunsmith is currently building a long range (1000 yds) target rifle with a barrel that's 1.45' diameter and is so heavy that if it was floated, would cause distortion of the action, so he is bedding the barrel along about a third of it's length, in aluminum bedding blocks surrounding it, and floating the action.
Bill Smith
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