I just watched a Darrell Holland video course, Building The Ultimate Tactical Or Varmint Riflehttps://smartflix.com/store/video/1946/Building-The-Ultimate-Tactical-Or-Varmint-Rifle, and like all his videos, it is well worth the time to watch. His flagship project is a design I'd never heard of: a V-block mounted ahead of the receiver with both the barrel forward of the block and the receiver aft of the block floating. The barrel breech is threaded to butt up to the receiver without a lug and a tenon of sorts is machined into the barrel about 4 inches ahead of the receiver where the lug is locked in place by a threaded sleeve and shoulder. The lug is bedded into the stock ahead of the V-block.
I'm curious as to why I've never seen anything like this before. It's an older video by the looks of it (I'd guess late 80s or early 90s) so it either wasn't much of a hit with shooters, or it doesn't work as well as more conventional designs. Any comments?
I'm curious as to why I've never seen anything like this before. It's an older video by the looks of it (I'd guess late 80s or early 90s) so it either wasn't much of a hit with shooters, or it doesn't work as well as more conventional designs. Any comments?