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From: cbl@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Chris Luchini)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Target/Benchrest questions - Bedding/Floating barrel, etc.
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Date: 15 Jun 91 23:47:53 GMT
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In article <35689@mimsy.umd.edu>, cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton) writes:
#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?!" :) 


	I asked my smith about those rifles that were free floated by
	about 1-2", he said it's for cooling. The .100" gap that is
	used in the normal free floating results in the top of the
	barrel cooling faster than the underside that is covered by
	the stock. The effect is even more pronounced with fluted barrels.
-cbl
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