Pressure point on barrel

[nmkid]

Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I had a Ruger 10-22 that wouldn’t shoot for squat. I took one of wife’s credit cards and cut shims to add pressure at the tip of the fore end.
The rifle doesn’t shoot any better but I can now afford a better rifle.

Winner, winner!

 

[Doom]

Back in the days of wood stocks it took a lot of labor to fit an action to a stock. You could free float a stock but with wood being hygroscopic it wasn't always a one shot deal. With light weight hunting barrels having a good contact point at the end of the forearm of the stock can reduce the magnitude of vibrations and increase accuracy assuming the contact is consistent. It is difficult with wood to have good consistancy. Pillar bedding as noted above helps in keeping things consistent.

 

[K22]

This was standard practice with Remington sporter rifles. The reason was to provide stability because there was no bedding in their cheap plastic stocks or their wooden stocks. In other words, a cheap remedy for the lack of proper bedding.

Their varmint model had a bedding block, and those rifles were free floated. All of mine shot in the 1/2 moa range with tailored reloads.

In my experience, to achieve consistent POI and improved accuracy, those factory stocks had to be bedded and the barrel free floated OR, the stock replaced with a stiffer stock with a bedding block which free floated the barrel.

PS: Most quality rifles today have free floated barrels with some sort of improved bedding design.

 

[Old Navy]

Many moons ago, had a factory Remington Model Seven in .17 Fireball with wood stock that had a pressure point. Some genius decided it was interfering with group size and removed it. Results were the opposite.

Yep! I did that along with a lot of guys here that are now world class shooters. Went right back to the way Ruger designed it.

 

[SeabeeKen]

Had a rifle back in the 80's that I wanted to shoot better but just never could get it there. I bedded the barrel in the last 1" of the stock. It went from a .5-.7 shooter to one hole measured in the .000" After bedding, I never placed worse than 3rd with it. Then there are a few I tried that and it got worse

 

[dcali]

It's more of an old school wood stock sporter barrel type trick. I haven't heard of anyone doing that on purpose on a modern rifle. Pillar bedding heavy barrels removed any need to futz with such wizardry.

 

[DShortt]

It's more of an old school wood stock sporter barrel type trick. I haven't heard of anyone doing that on purpose on a modern rifle. Pillar bedding heavy barrels removed any need to futz with such wizardry.

Remington was doing it not long ago with polymer stocks. 10 years ago perhaps. Right about the time the 270Win Mag was hitting a big promotion. A friend of mine's son bought one. Shot pretty well but at the time Winchester Silvertip ammo was about all that was available locally. Meat loss on deer was completely unacceptable so he sold it after a couple of seasons.