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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 925147" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Topshot – you stated verywell exactly what I'd be worried about with the chamber bedding and then Jud96 presents real world experience as to why it isn't an issue. Sounds like it is every man for himself and do whatever appeals to you. Right now all of my rifles have barrels that float.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here is what I'm really thinking (I should have said this up front). Most of my rifles will group one or maybe two bullets at 1 inch or better at 200 yards. However, what most of my rifles won't do is group a selection of bullet weights that well. For example in my 338 RUM the 210 TTSX consistently groups around 0.750" at 200 yards. But the 285 grain LRX is hanging around 2 inches. It seems like that rifle is naturally tuned to the 210 TTSX. I have other rifles that shoot heavy bullets the best but they aren't so good with light bullets. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If this chamber bedding method would make all bullets shoot good, it might be worth doing even if there is some risk of messing things up if you are not careful when shooting from field positions. What I've heard is that this method does just that – makes everything shoot better. However common sense tells me that may not be true because tuned means just that – it is optimized to a spot in a spectrum of choices. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So my guess is that yes this does work but probably only for the bullet that you tune and bullets similar to that bullet. There is some value in that because it says I could tune every rifle for my favorite bullet insteading of using what happens to shoot the best. What do our gunsmiths say about this? Since you build rifles a certain way - chamber bedded or not - you must have a reason or two for what you do?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 925147, member: 63138"] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]Topshot – you stated verywell exactly what I’d be worried about with the chamber bedding and then Jud96 presents real world experience as to why it isn’t an issue. Sounds like it is every man for himself and do whatever appeals to you. Right now all of my rifles have barrels that float.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]Here is what I’m really thinking (I should have said this up front). Most of my rifles will group one or maybe two bullets at 1 inch or better at 200 yards. However, what most of my rifles won’t do is group a selection of bullet weights that well. For example in my 338 RUM the 210 TTSX consistently groups around 0.750” at 200 yards. But the 285 grain LRX is hanging around 2 inches. It seems like that rifle is naturally tuned to the 210 TTSX. I have other rifles that shoot heavy bullets the best but they aren’t so good with light bullets. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]If this chamber bedding method would make all bullets shoot good, it might be worth doing even if there is some risk of messing things up if you are not careful when shooting from field positions. What I’ve heard is that this method does just that – makes everything shoot better. However common sense tells me that may not be true because tuned means just that – it is optimized to a spot in a spectrum of choices. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]So my guess is that yes this does work but probably only for the bullet that you tune and bullets similar to that bullet. There is some value in that because it says I could tune every rifle for my favorite bullet insteading of using what happens to shoot the best. What do our gunsmiths say about this? Since you build rifles a certain way - chamber bedded or not - you must have a reason or two for what you do?[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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