Camo wrapping a gun

nocternal

nocternal

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I thought this would be a better place to post this. When wrapping a gun with camo tape does it affect POI if you wrap the stock forend and barrel together? This may make the barrel not free floating?
 
What I found out and just recently, was the camo wrap did not allow my barrel to cool normally when I was sighting in. The groups from an accurate rifle were all over the place and as I was shooting quite a bit, I expected the barrel to heat up.` Upon checking,...The camo wrap was shielding the heat and not letting it dissipate. I took it off and the rifle grouped normally.
 
I have had several rifles wrapped. My main coyote gun has been wrapped for two years straight and it hasn't failed me yet. It has shot a lot of yotes from -20 below to 70 above doesn't seem to affect it in the least.
 
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I'm not a bench rest shooter. My rifle stays wrapped all the time-stainless barrel aluminum float tube. The rifle shoots better than I can hold in the field.

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Depends on the rifle IMO. My buddy has his model 11 .22-250 with no effect but my old .204 was way off until I unwrapped it.
 
I have never noticed a problem with any of the rifles I have wrapped. Just don't pull real tight when going from the barrel onto the stock.
 
Take the barrel and action off the stock and wrap it individually. I'm too scared to wrap my barrel and forearm together.
 
I have had my .22-250 wrapped for years. When I re-wrap I don't wrap the front stock and barrel as tight as the rest of the gun. I hunt in temps from 40 above to 40 below and killed them from 50 yards to 500+ yards. I have never noticed any problems.
 


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