ORIGINAL: falcon
Never seena rifleshoot worse with a Free Float...
That said, a pressure point is only slightly simpler to replace than it is to remove.........
Been bedding actions and floating barrels for 40 years and have seenone that shot the sameafter the barrel was floated: The gunwas a Remington 700 in .22/250 that made 2" groups at 100 yards. Cured the problem with a short piece of dowel mortised into the fore end. The gun then made .5 inch three shot groups at 100 yards.
falcon.....I've also been doing the same kind of work as you for about the same length of time...But you've got my curiosity aroused. Could you explain to me just what you did with the dowel? Create a pressure point? Did you set the dowel in horizontally or vertically? I've had to re-create pressure points before, but always used a different approach. Interesting......