F4YG,
After fooling around with rifles for some time now. I have found that sporter barrel rifles usually shoot better with a pressure point near the end of the stock. But I have run into situations where a certain bullet will not shoot with a pressure point. I try to set up a rifle for what I'm going to shoot through it the majority of the time. On target rifles I usually free float barrel execpt for the first inch and half past the recoil lug.
Back to the pressure point method. I usually start out with the barrel channel with no pressure point. I shoot groups of different loads to check group size. Then I take a business card and place it under the barrel near the end of the stock, and shoot groups again. Most of the time the groups will shrink with a pressure point.
Next step is bed a permanent pressure point about 1" from the tip of the stock. Then it's back to the range for more load testing. Usually everything will fall in place and I'll have a good shooting rifle. The main thing is don't expect too much from a hunting rifle. If you can get one to group around 1"moa consistently you doing good.


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