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From: ghm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.OZ.AU (Geoff Miller)
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Subject: Re: Target/Benchrest questions - Bedding/Floating barrel, etc.
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Date: 12 Jun 91 16:19:40 GMT
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cscc1f@menudo.uh.edu (Gregory W. Hayes) writes:

#Glass bedding the stock versus making a floating barrel rifle.  This
#is still really in the planning stages so I'm trying to work out
#everything before I spend money unecessarily or do some irrepairable
#cutting on the stock.  My primary concern is accuracy, but since I'm
#doing this myself, ease also plays a big part.  From my limited
#knowledge of rifles with floating barrels, I know that the barrels do
#not touch the stock at any point.  Does the mounting point of the action
#need any special attention to take the added forces of the floating
#barrel?  Does the action need to be bedded too?

I don't think the free-floating barrel adds any particular force to the
mounting point of the action  -  the pressure exerted by the stock will
be perpendicular to the bore, so any recoil forces will still be borne
by the action mounting.  Certainly the action should be carefully 
bedded, but I'd try it as is before doing any work that may not be
necessary (I'm basically lazy).

Rifles with fully-floating barrels do generally have large and possibly
somewhat cumbersome stocks (e.g. my Anschutz .22 or Sportco .308), 
because the fore-end has to be solid enough that it won't warp under 
tha tension of the sling, for example, and touch the barrel.

Geoff Miller  (ghm@cc.adfa.oz.au)
Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy