free flost barrel
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 9
free flost barrel
Hi,
I have a Weatherby Vanguard with the fiberguard stock. I am thinking about removing the pressure pad in the stock so that the barrel is completly free floated. I have done this on a Remington 700 and it did improve accuracy but Weatherby claims that the guy is designed to have the pressure pad and that removing it could hurt accuracy. The gun shoots pretty good but as soon at the barrel gets wam my shots really start to creep high. I am waiting about 10 min between rounds.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
I have a Weatherby Vanguard with the fiberguard stock. I am thinking about removing the pressure pad in the stock so that the barrel is completly free floated. I have done this on a Remington 700 and it did improve accuracy but Weatherby claims that the guy is designed to have the pressure pad and that removing it could hurt accuracy. The gun shoots pretty good but as soon at the barrel gets wam my shots really start to creep high. I am waiting about 10 min between rounds.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
#3
Giant Nontypical
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RE: free flost barrel
have a Weatherby Vanguard with the fiberguard stock. I am thinking about removing the pressure pad in the stock so that the barrel is completly free floated. I have done this on a Remington 700 and it did improve accuracy but Weatherby claims that the guy is designed to have the pressure pad and that removing it could hurt accuracy. The gun shoots pretty good but as soon at the barrel gets wam my shots really start to creep high. I am waiting about 10 min between rounds.
#7
RE: free flost barrel
Never seena rifleshoot worse with a Free Float...
That said, a pressure point is only slightly simpler to replace than it is to remove.........
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.
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
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RE: free flost barrel
ORIGINAL: falcon
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.
Never seena rifleshoot worse with a Free Float...
That said, a pressure point is only slightly simpler to replace than it is to remove.........
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......