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Accuracy Tuning With Barrel Bedding?
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 974425" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>My nephew finished a 338 Edge build recently. It is crazy accurate running the 300 grain Berger at 3040 fps with RL-33 out of a 30 inch Krieger. He mentioned that he used a trick a gunsmith friend of his put him on to which was to bed the action and also a couple inches of the barrel. Then load up some ammo for the velocity you want with the bullet you want and if the bullet holes are not touching at 100 yards take off 1/4 inch of bedding from under the barrel and try again. He struck pay dirt after the 2nd cutback when the group dropped from 1 inch to a clover leaf. He did the same thing with his 260 Rem (also a recent build) and it shoots in the 0.3s.</p><p> </p><p>Since I was bedding my new 26 Nosler anyway, I figured why not give this a try so I put a couple of inches of bedding under the barrel. I have never done this as I was always told you want the barrel to float. However for this rifle, tuning to a particular bullet (127 gr Barnes LRX) makes sense because it will be only for hunting.</p><p></p><p>Usually you tune the load to what the rifle likes and not the other way around so I'm curious if anybody else out there has used this method to tune a rifle to a particular load?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 974425, member: 63138"] My nephew finished a 338 Edge build recently. It is crazy accurate running the 300 grain Berger at 3040 fps with RL-33 out of a 30 inch Krieger. He mentioned that he used a trick a gunsmith friend of his put him on to which was to bed the action and also a couple inches of the barrel. Then load up some ammo for the velocity you want with the bullet you want and if the bullet holes are not touching at 100 yards take off 1/4 inch of bedding from under the barrel and try again. He struck pay dirt after the 2nd cutback when the group dropped from 1 inch to a clover leaf. He did the same thing with his 260 Rem (also a recent build) and it shoots in the 0.3s. Since I was bedding my new 26 Nosler anyway, I figured why not give this a try so I put a couple of inches of bedding under the barrel. I have never done this as I was always told you want the barrel to float. However for this rifle, tuning to a particular bullet (127 gr Barnes LRX) makes sense because it will be only for hunting. Usually you tune the load to what the rifle likes and not the other way around so I'm curious if anybody else out there has used this method to tune a rifle to a particular load? [/QUOTE]
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