How long is too long?

[sable tireur]

I'm surprised that people don't mount the barrel block a few inches forward of the action and taper the barrel on both ends.

To accomplish what end? Seems to me that it just weakens the moment arm.

 

[Buck Fever]

A barrel block just changes the constraint from one long single ended column to two shorter single ended columns. If the barrel block butts against the receiver, that column is going to be much more stiff than the muzzle and. If you push the block toward the muzzle, the muzzle end is going to get stiffer faster than the receiver end loses stiffness until the barrel block gets near the middle.

So you could make it stiffer and probably lose some weight at the same time.

 

[4xforfun]

No bbl blocks for me. BAT "L" 10" X 2".