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From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
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Subject: Re: Target/Benchrest questions - Bedding/Floating barrel, etc.
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Date: 15 Jun 91 15:16:23 GMT
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As quoted from <35502@mimsy.umd.edu> by ghm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.OZ.AU (Geoff Miller):

# 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.
 
I saw a bolt gun with a free floating barrel at a high power match in Ohio
a while ago.  It took the concept to a rediculous extreme.  As I recall, the
barrel wasn't even NEAR the stock, but instead the forend was significantly
BELOW the barrel, giving the appearance of, of all things, a Japanese
aircraft carrier!  The barrel was the "flight deck" and the forend the "deck".
I saw that things and said to myself, "Is that a rifle or a Vulcan harp?!" :) 

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Christopher Morton
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