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Free float a Model 70 Featherweight?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 801207" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>If you want the different pressures on the rifle's fore end to be transferred to that barrel so it will have all sorts of non-repeatable vibrating properties, don't free float it.</p><p></p><p>While it may shoot well as it rests atop something while you shoot it from a bench, in other postions the external pressure on the fore end will be different. So will the pressure on the barrel. This is how most folks judge the effects of a bit of pressure on the barrel from the fore end touching it. Stock fore ends are not nearly as stiff as barrels so they bend quite easily. </p><p></p><p>Such is the normal stuff when receivers are not well fit to the stock's inletting for them.</p><p></p><p>I think the rifle would be better off with a thin metal shim under the receiver at the front stock screw to better fit it to the stock. That may free float the barrel and good accuracy will be at hand in any shooting position. Or properly epoxy bed the receiver (no epoxy touching the barrel whatsoever) and have at least 1/16th inch clearance around the barrel to the fore end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 801207, member: 5302"] If you want the different pressures on the rifle's fore end to be transferred to that barrel so it will have all sorts of non-repeatable vibrating properties, don't free float it. While it may shoot well as it rests atop something while you shoot it from a bench, in other postions the external pressure on the fore end will be different. So will the pressure on the barrel. This is how most folks judge the effects of a bit of pressure on the barrel from the fore end touching it. Stock fore ends are not nearly as stiff as barrels so they bend quite easily. Such is the normal stuff when receivers are not well fit to the stock's inletting for them. I think the rifle would be better off with a thin metal shim under the receiver at the front stock screw to better fit it to the stock. That may free float the barrel and good accuracy will be at hand in any shooting position. Or properly epoxy bed the receiver (no epoxy touching the barrel whatsoever) and have at least 1/16th inch clearance around the barrel to the fore end. [/QUOTE]
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