free floating a h&r

eyeballjr · 12-11-2002, 07:51 PM

will free floating the stock on a H&R improve acuracy. Im not getting very good grouping with my 223. about 1.5in @ 100 yards. How can i improve it. thanks

aunsaber · 12-11-2002, 08:55 PM

Because of the forearm screw you are limited on how much you can float the barrel.
On my 30/30 it improved a little but not very much.
Reloading my own ammo made the most differance.
If you don't reload try differant brands of ammo and differant weights of bullets etc.

1SHOT_1KILL · 12-12-2002, 08:15 AM

Here is what I did to a friends NEF .223 Ultra Varminter to make it shoot decent, before it would only shoot 1.5-2" groups no matter what kind of handloads or factory loads we tried in it. In the forearm, I opened the barrel channel up and made a "pillar" bushing to got into the forearm retaining screw hole and underneath the lug on the barrel. When the screw is tighten down to about 35 inch pounds the lug on the barrel should bottom out on this pillar. Then I bedded the entire forearm. After that I recut and re-crowned the muzzle. The I reworked the trigger to 2 pounds.

The it was back to the handload testing. We found a load with a 50gr Hornady V-max, 27.5 grains of Hodgdon BLC-2, Federal cases, and Federal S/R primers, that gave 5/8" 5 shot groups at 100yds. That is one heck of a crow busting rifle now.

Pro-Line · 12-12-2002, 10:22 AM

To float my handi-rifle (.223) I just sanded some off the forearm to make a little room. Then I placed a rubber washer under the screw that holds the forarm to the barrel. Then I made sure there were no other pressure points.

This increased my accuracy tremendously. My groups went from 1.5" to under an inch. I also had the trigger lightened.

Hope this helps!!!

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