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Help me plan out a mid range rifle? .25-06 & light barrel experts needed.
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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 508345" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>Bart B,</p><p> </p><p>What you are saying, frankly went right over my head<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p> </p><p>This isn't the first time I've heard of it with light barrel rifles, but it's the first time I've actually seen it personally. Maybe you know, why is it that so many light barrel factory rifles come with a pressure pad on the forend? Is that what they have to do to get decent groups size out of the box? </p><p> </p><p>I believe that all barrels should be floated so change in stock pressure doesn't cause a shift in POI, but there has to be some reason that so many guns come factory with upward pressure on the barrel at the forend.??</p><p> </p><p>I am no expert on making/building rifles, but I've personally seen bedding/floating give great increase in precision with same load, no change in precision with same load, and now, a small decrease in precision with same load. Bedding/floating was done by a gunsmith I have utmost faith in.</p><p> </p><p>Heres what my light barrel 25-06 could do with one particular handload prior to bedding action/floating barrel, and I fully intend on trying that load again now. Even though precision was plenty good, POI shifted from one day to the next or one season to the next (sometimes more than 1 moa!). Even if my groups are a little bigger, I'll gladly take that over a 5" shift in POI at 300 yds any day. Perhaps I have a bad scope, but will a bad scope occasionally shoot one hole at 100 and 1" at 300?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 508345, member: 21068"] Bart B, What you are saying, frankly went right over my head:). This isn't the first time I've heard of it with light barrel rifles, but it's the first time I've actually seen it personally. Maybe you know, why is it that so many light barrel factory rifles come with a pressure pad on the forend? Is that what they have to do to get decent groups size out of the box? I believe that all barrels should be floated so change in stock pressure doesn't cause a shift in POI, but there has to be some reason that so many guns come factory with upward pressure on the barrel at the forend.?? I am no expert on making/building rifles, but I've personally seen bedding/floating give great increase in precision with same load, no change in precision with same load, and now, a small decrease in precision with same load. Bedding/floating was done by a gunsmith I have utmost faith in. Heres what my light barrel 25-06 could do with one particular handload prior to bedding action/floating barrel, and I fully intend on trying that load again now. Even though precision was plenty good, POI shifted from one day to the next or one season to the next (sometimes more than 1 moa!). Even if my groups are a little bigger, I'll gladly take that over a 5" shift in POI at 300 yds any day. Perhaps I have a bad scope, but will a bad scope occasionally shoot one hole at 100 and 1" at 300? [/QUOTE]
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