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Full length barrel bedding
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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1856820" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>At one time floating the barrel was not recommended on hunting rifles. This is going back many years when everything was wood and a gun had to look pretty as well as shoot. Upward pressure at the for end was the norm. When glass bedding became popular it usually went from the tang to the tip of the stock and it worked until the wood moved with a change in humidity. Many of those beautiful stocks were a terror to bed because you wanted a fine line along the barrel channel but all that swirl in the grain made them move in different directions. I got my first fibreglass stock blank in the late 70's and it was paper thin and so rough I would have sent it back except there was only two companies producing them at the time and both were the same. It needed lots of reinforcing and that meant added weight but it also created a lot of stability. Full length bedding worked on them but, when hunting, water could get between the barrel and channel and rust the underside of the barrel or around the lug. I went to free floating just to make it easier to maintain the rifle and found it shoots as good or better anyway. Bench rest shooters were doing it at the time even with actions glued right into the stocks and their groups were shrinking so it obviously was the way to go. I think full-length bedding can work but is all about the stability of the stock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1856820, member: 91402"] At one time floating the barrel was not recommended on hunting rifles. This is going back many years when everything was wood and a gun had to look pretty as well as shoot. Upward pressure at the for end was the norm. When glass bedding became popular it usually went from the tang to the tip of the stock and it worked until the wood moved with a change in humidity. Many of those beautiful stocks were a terror to bed because you wanted a fine line along the barrel channel but all that swirl in the grain made them move in different directions. I got my first fibreglass stock blank in the late 70's and it was paper thin and so rough I would have sent it back except there was only two companies producing them at the time and both were the same. It needed lots of reinforcing and that meant added weight but it also created a lot of stability. Full length bedding worked on them but, when hunting, water could get between the barrel and channel and rust the underside of the barrel or around the lug. I went to free floating just to make it easier to maintain the rifle and found it shoots as good or better anyway. Bench rest shooters were doing it at the time even with actions glued right into the stocks and their groups were shrinking so it obviously was the way to go. I think full-length bedding can work but is all about the stability of the stock. [/QUOTE]
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