I've been shooting for 30 some years and have always understood that common knowlege in the shooting sports said that that rifles are more accurate (tighter groups) with free floating barrells.

However Remington does not free float the barrells on their production Model 700s. I would think that Remington has the ballistic engineers to really determine how to make their rifles more accurate out of the box and if a free floating barrell made the rifles more accurate (tighter groups) Remington would surely float the barrells.

Thoughts?