How to Free Float a Rifle Barrel Presented by Larry Potterfield of MidwayUSA
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2011
- Free floating the barrel on a rifle can help improve accuracy. Watch along as Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA, explains not only how to check if a rifle barrel is free floated but also demonstrates how to remove any wood to metal contact if it isn't. This process helps ensure that a rifle can reach its ultimate accuracy potential, regardless of the weather conditions.
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Free floating the barrel on a rifle can help improve accuracy. Watch along as Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA, explains not only how to check if a rifle barrel is free floated but also demonstrates how to remove any wood to metal contact if it isn’t. This process helps ensure that a rifle can reach its ultimate accuracy potential, regardless of the weather conditions.
Larry I would like your thoughts on free-floating a Weatherby vangaurd
Don't forget to properly bed the action . Recenter the scope and lap the scope rings. Also recrown the barrel using lapping compound padted heavy on the head of a brads screw acting ss a drill bitt in a drill. Check it all out on the tube.
Greetings!
Could You please give me advice.
When we assemble scopeoptic on rings we must push rings forward before we tight screw. Right?
What about when we put bolt pipe on new stock? Should we push pipe forward before tighting?
It is small luft in half millimetr when we put pipe on its stock.
Thank You for Your answer.
Is it best to do the bedding of a gun first and then free float it..
I have an Ruger 10/22 standard w/a birch stock. It is very snug on the barrel when installed even rubs on the barrel. I started sanding it to have it free floating. How much should I sand off and how big of a space/gap do I need for a free floating stock? Thank You from a fella who likes his 22lr. (even though there are no bulk to head out & spend a day w/my Ruger)
@AmericaStandsStrong1 Yeah, how do you ground down a synthetic? Is there any protection that needs to be applied on the synthetic after its ground down, like they did above?
Would sand paper work also?
Tool is nolonger available at Midway USA.
Weatherby barrels number 1 and number 2 Contours need a pressure pad for best accuracy. I took this pressure pad out and it shot like a shotgun. Some guns and some barrels need a pressure point.
Can you do a video on freefloating a rifle with a synthetic stock?
I did mine just by sanding out the barrel channel like he did to fit a bigger barrel. The factory barrel was already free floated with the pillars in place Since was a cheap factory stock I didn't worry about it. A video would be nice though. It was a pain removing the plastic "fuzz" created by the sanding.
How did you achieve removing the fuzz?
@AmericaStandsStrong1 How?
There for a second I though I ended up on harbor freight!!!
It was refreshing not to hear "first make sure your firearm is unloaded".
why does a free floating barrel help increase accuracy?
A barrel should be able to vibrate naturally and consistently when fired so the bullet will exit the barrel, hopefully during a node, at the same point during vibration. This will ensure the bullet grouping is tight.
A business card is definetly not 10 thousandths thick. A dollar bill is 40 thousandsths thick and a business card is quite a bit thicker than that, so probably around 60-70 thousandsths in thickness if not more.
@godslayer7771 Thats actually not true. Depending on the rifle, a synthetic stock can have imperfections in it as well. When the action is tightened down you may hit one of these imperfections and slightly tweak your accuracy. To make matters worse, if you are not torquing the action to the same tightness each time, it can affect your accuracy differently each time you remove and replace the stock.
I made it by myself thanks to woodprix plans. I think it's the best way to learn how to build.
I made it myself. Just got instructions from woodprix website and I'm ready for do it :D
@AmericaStandsStrong1 You dont need to. The only reason to free float a barrel is if you have a wooden stock because the wood and expands and contracts under cold or hot conditions causing stress on the barrel.
Maybe hes nice because hes trying to sell you shit? Or possibly because hes worth many millions of dollars... hahaha I know I'd be a lot nicer if I was trying to sell you something, common sense would say...
YOU ARE WRONG !!!!
I like Larry Potterfield, but his videos are over-scripted.