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.

 

[D-4297]

When I had my new GRS Stock fitted up by Alex , He put a very nice Anschutz rail in and it took a little testing at the range to get the "Balance" I was looking for , in a TR Rifle , but I managed . The idea being to adjust the bipod to the point where the "feet" stay on your board , but not make the rifle so "Front-end heavy" , it wants to tip over . When you find that "right" spot on the rail , mark it with a magic marker , and shoot a String . If it's correct , you'll know by the way the gun responds through the string . Adjust it from there , forward or rearward till it works the way you want it too . Then mark the rail again with the Marker . It worked for me .

 

[Steve Donlon]

It depends on the length and weight of the barrel. It has to be balanced so it recoils straight back.