Free float vs. pressure points

[MT257]

So I decided to go with a HS precision. My next question is do I need to re-work a load or should I be able to shoot the load I had been shooting?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

So I decided to go with a HS precision. My next question is do I need to re-work a load or should I be able to shoot the load I had been shooting?

You never know til you try

 

[CharlieNC]

This is going to sound crazy, but I am going to throw it out there. IN my family's plastic stocks, we found a fix for model 7's to 700's. We free float the barrel, then use the glue on wheel weights in the forearm, as many as we can get in there, and brother do these wheel weights have some good glue on them.

Bed recoil lug, freefloat mag box, tune/replace trigger.

Then we add a Gentry muzzle break, amazing how many of these rifles shoot very tiny groups with tuned loads....Brother that owns a tire store found the fix, not me. I would have thrown every one of those plastic stocks in the trash.

Brother owns every model 7 caliber made in plastic stocks, and the fix above works on everyone of them. I suspect that the glue on the wheel weights makes the forearm more stiff, plus the added weight retards muzzle flip. Your guess is as good as mine, but they all shoot sub 1/2" groups and smaller.

If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed how simple the fix is on such a flexible stock.

I always thought that a pressure point is covering up some major problems elsewhere, but if the bones of a dead black cat say to put in a pressure point, by all means do it.

Are the weights underneath or inside the forearm, contacting the barrel?

 

[AckleymanII]

Charlie, the weights are under the barrel, inside of the forearm of the stock. This is an absolute Red Neck Fix, and I have seen it work on half a dozen rifles at least. This is NOT my can of worms, I am just telling of what I saw and how it fixed a problem. I give the plastic stocks to short range hunting friends.

 

[Hankpac]

Here is what I do when I pick up a 2nd hand hunting rifle (with a wood stock) that needs tuning. I sand the barrel channel to float the barrel down to the thick bell just in front of the recoil lugs and re-seal the wood. Then, I shoot a nice slow 3-shot group. I then use a piece of folded card stock to create a temporary pressure point under the barrel and shoot another slow 3-shot group. If the groups improve, then I've concluded that this particular barrel will benefit from a pressure point. If the group stays the same or gets worse, then that rifle gets no pressure point.