Gunsmithing Free Floating Test...

[valentin_84]

I have a Remington 700 Tactical XCR Long Range 308 that comes with a Bell and Carlson stock that I think is touching the barrel too much.

I ran a sheet of paper between the barrel and stock and it slipped by until I got half way down the barrel and then it got continuously harder to move. I was able to get all the way down the barrel, but it was real rough at the end.

Is this normal or should it be easy to slip through the whole way? I was thinking of taking some sand paper to it, but I thought I would ask first...

 

[banshee sws]

Re: Free Floating Test...

it is said, that a business card or a sheet of paper folded in half and then run between the barrel and forearm , should clear from the front tip of the forearm all the way back to the lug or just in front of the lug (if it's been bedded with a lug pad)

and the same free moving ease , the entire way

 

[cal50]

Re: Free Floating Test...

Contact is contact.

Put the rifle on the bipod (weight at farthest point) and slide your favorite gauge (dollar bill, business card,construction paper)under the barrel. If it does not slide easily open the channel up.

 

[patriotoutlaw]

Re: Free Floating Test...

Get a dowel that will fit inside your barrel channel, wrap it in sand paper and remove stock material until you can slide a dollar bill the enite length of your barrel, save an 1 1/2" or so in front of the reciever.

 

[BBeyer]

Re: Free Floating Test...

The problem with having too little room between the barrel and stock is that when the barrel vibrates if it toutches the stock at all it can throw the shot way way off. A lot of B.R. guns are made with between an eighth and a sixteenth of an inch clearence. It sounds to me that yours could cause problems the way it is.

 

[redirt78]

Re: Free Floating Test...

Got a BC A5 and it was contacting the barrel near the tip of the forend real bad. Sanded it and slapped some clear finger nail polish on it and it shoots much better now. (probably better things to seal with than f.polish but was all I had with me)

 

[valentin_84]

Re: Free Floating Test...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: redirt78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Got a BC A5 and it was contacting the barrel near the tip of the forend real bad. Sanded it and slapped some clear finger nail polish on it and it shoots much better now. (probably better things to seal with than f.polish but was all I had with me) </div></div>

Good point about sealing it! I didn't even think about it since my stock is synthetic. What should be used to seal it after I sand some of it away?

 

[Dr. Vette]

Re: Free Floating Test...

I'd bed it if it hasn't been done already, and see if in that process you end up with contact or if it goes away. Sometimes I end up shimming up the barrel or action enough during the bedding process that the small amount of contact you describe "vanishes."

 

[mdmp5]

Re: Free Floating Test...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: valentin_84</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: redirt78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Got a BC A5 and it was contacting the barrel near the tip of the forend real bad. Sanded it and slapped some clear finger nail polish on it and it shoots much better now. (probably better things to seal with than f.polish but was all I had with me) </div></div>

Good point about sealing it! I didn't even think about it since my stock is synthetic. What should be used to seal it after I sand some of it away?</div></div>

I would give it a spray with duracoat if you have it

 

[valentin_84]

Re: Free Floating Test...

I'm probably going to have to break it down tonight and get it done. Thanks guys!