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Why no love for 6.5 PRC for 1 mile shoots....??
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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 2477574" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>I bet your forend is flexing and making contact with the barrel. That's pretty common when using a bipod on those factory stocks, especially with a long and heavy barrel. </p><p></p><p>An easy way to test it is to shim the action in the stock. You can do this with some aluminum muffler tape in a few minutes. You'll basically cut small pieces of the tape and layer it between the bottom side of the action and the stock where the screws go in. You want the little aluminum tape "shims" to rest on top of the aluminum pillars in the stock. You're essentially building extensions to the aluminum pillars in the stock. It should only take 3-4 layers of the aluminum tape. </p><p></p><p>The goal is to just shim the action enough to get your barrel free floating and far enough away from the stock that it won't make contact with the forend. You'll also want to make sure the rear tang of the action isn't making contact with the stock. Savage actions typically don't like to have any contact between the stock and the rear tang. </p><p></p><p>If your groups improve after shimming the action and torquing it back into the stock, you can start thinking about bedding the stock or opening up the barrel channel. This is just an easy and inexpensive test to see if bedding or opening the barrel channel will actually help before spending time or money modifying your stock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 2477574, member: 11960"] I bet your forend is flexing and making contact with the barrel. That’s pretty common when using a bipod on those factory stocks, especially with a long and heavy barrel. An easy way to test it is to shim the action in the stock. You can do this with some aluminum muffler tape in a few minutes. You’ll basically cut small pieces of the tape and layer it between the bottom side of the action and the stock where the screws go in. You want the little aluminum tape “shims” to rest on top of the aluminum pillars in the stock. You’re essentially building extensions to the aluminum pillars in the stock. It should only take 3-4 layers of the aluminum tape. The goal is to just shim the action enough to get your barrel free floating and far enough away from the stock that it won’t make contact with the forend. You’ll also want to make sure the rear tang of the action isn’t making contact with the stock. Savage actions typically don’t like to have any contact between the stock and the rear tang. If your groups improve after shimming the action and torquing it back into the stock, you can start thinking about bedding the stock or opening up the barrel channel. This is just an easy and inexpensive test to see if bedding or opening the barrel channel will actually help before spending time or money modifying your stock. [/QUOTE]
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