Heavy stock an issue?

[GetReal]

I am not asking which way is better.

I merely asking if one has experience with the buttbeing heavy.

To that question.... i've had rifles with all kinds of different balance points that shot well.

I would think you've got to have a pretty thin barrel to have a butt heavy rifle. My best guess would be a thin whippy barrel is gonna be the accuracy problem with a butt heavy rifle. Not the weight distribution. Weight distribution would be pretty much always the last thing I look at on an inaccurate rifle.

A carbon fiber bbl might make for a butt heavy rifle.

 

[Chiquita]

To that question.... i've had rifles with all kinds of different balance points that shot well.

I would think you've got to have a pretty thin barrel to have a butt heavy rifle.

Well, yesterday I filled my KRG Bravo stock with ¼" steel BBs and poured in epoxy so they don't rattle. After everything was done, then I realized crap, the butt is heavy. but it was too late.
Then I had a piece of ⅜ x 2" x 8" that drilled holes, painted and got it mounted at the front of the chassis, that made it better, bug the butt is still heavier.

As I said earlier, I was curious if people had expericed POI, rifle behaving differently....if they had changed the wight of the stock.
I KNOW, that every rifle is different and every stock is different.

 

[GetReal]

As I said earlier, I was curious if people had expericed POI, rifle behaving differently....if they had changed the wight of the stock.
I KNOW, that every rifle is different and every stock is different.

My most on point experience to that question was a lightweight AR I built that was shooting 4 " groups at a hundred yards. Weight balance definitely favored the stock end of the rifle.

I left everything else the same , but changed to a slightly heavier fluted barrel and it shot under an inch at a hundred yards.

If i'm going to Vegas , my bet is on the stiffer barrel made the difference , not the weight balance.