Free float or not 700 Rem.

weekender

weekender

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I just bought my first synthetic stock Rem 700 .243. All my previous rifles have been wood stock. Most of my rifles have been beaded and free floated. How much it helped I can't really say. I would say the rifles shoot better than me. What's your thoughts on whether to free float the barrel on this new synthetic REM 700?
 
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Free float, and you will find that even with free floating the barrel that the stock will flex enough to contact the barrel with very little pressure applied.
 
Don't mess with the Tupper ware stock. Pull it and put a new stock on it. Like either a B&C medalist or a Bobby Hart stock that has a aluminum action block in it and be done with it. I will agree that it will still flex enough to contact the barrel unless you want to use a dremel to hog it out and epoxy in carbon rods to stiffen the forarm up and then float the barrel. To me it is way better to pull the stock.
 
Originally Posted By: deaddogwalkinDon't mess with the Tupper ware stock. Pull it and put a new stock on it. Like either a B&C medalist or a Bobby Hart stock that has a aluminum action block in it and be done with it. I will agree that it will still flex enough to contact the barrel unless you want to use a dremel to hog it out and epoxy in carbon rods to stiffen the forarm up and then float the barrel. To me it is way better to pull the stock.

He didn't say it was tupperware, he said it is synthetic - an H-S is synthetic.
 
Cat that is true. You know what I did was assume something. If it is a HS then float it but if is the stocks that I have been seeing then swap it out.
 
I have 3 HS stocked Remington's they came floated.

When in doubt float em though. It's never made a rifle I owned shoot worse.
 


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