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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1670580" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>The whole "can-you-slide-a-dollar-barrel-between-the-stock and barrel" type of check for free-floating seems comical to me now. Watching that video of the AR being fired (with and without muzzle brakes) and seeing how much 'whip' that barrel has...it makes me realize that MOST free-floated barrels are easily touching the stock during the act of being fired. The "plus" of a free-float is there is at least no-contact BEFORE the shot is fired so regardless of what the stock is doing, the barrel is 'free' for...a brief moment.</p><p></p><p>This also makes me appreciate the need for a really firm, stiff, non-flexible for-end on a gun. If the barrel is going to whip and make contact, the stiffer and more 'inert' the for-end, the less variable the barrel-to-stock contact will be. Put another way - the barrel WILL still touch but it will touch in a more consistent, repeatable manner because the stock isn't flexing, TOO. And, I would think, the stiffer and less forgiving forend will have a greater 'damping' effect on that whipping barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1670580, member: 9308"] The whole "can-you-slide-a-dollar-barrel-between-the-stock and barrel" type of check for free-floating seems comical to me now. Watching that video of the AR being fired (with and without muzzle brakes) and seeing how much 'whip' that barrel has...it makes me realize that MOST free-floated barrels are easily touching the stock during the act of being fired. The "plus" of a free-float is there is at least no-contact BEFORE the shot is fired so regardless of what the stock is doing, the barrel is 'free' for...a brief moment. This also makes me appreciate the need for a really firm, stiff, non-flexible for-end on a gun. If the barrel is going to whip and make contact, the stiffer and more 'inert' the for-end, the less variable the barrel-to-stock contact will be. Put another way - the barrel WILL still touch but it will touch in a more consistent, repeatable manner because the stock isn't flexing, TOO. And, I would think, the stiffer and less forgiving forend will have a greater 'damping' effect on that whipping barrel. [/QUOTE]
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