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I just wonder how many of you have your plains game rifle barrel free floated? How bout fully bedded? or with upward pressure? Just wondering. Aaron | ||
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Three PG rifles, two 7mm Remmys and a .300 RUM, all floated. | |||
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All the rifles we build and use have free floating barrels. | |||
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My 30-06 is free floated the whole barrel. Never been to Africa, but worked fine in 90% humidity and 80 degree weather in TX. ____________________________ If you died tomorrow, what would you have done today ... 2018 Zimbabwe - Tuskless w/ Nengasha Safaris 2011 Mozambique - Buffalo w/ Mashambanzou Safaris | |||
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My Win M-70 300 WM is free floating. "...Africa. I love it, and there is no reason for me to explore why. She affects some people that way, and those who feel as I do need no explanation." from The Last Safari | |||
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All of mine are free floating barrels. Some with bedded actions. I did put a Sims Deresonator on one rifle. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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All floated. ( except the big bores ) | |||
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I try to free float all my barrels. I don't see a down side to it. Occasionally they don't shoot well free floated. That's when you could play with upward pressure. Otherwise I'd forget the upward pressure. I try to buy rifles that are prebedded or have them bedded. Again I don't see a down side. Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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The only rifle I have hunted plainsgame with is a Ruger RSM in 375 H&H. I had a gunsmith reinforce the bedding and put on a new recoil pad, but did not free float the barrel. It will shoot all day long inside of 1 1/2 inches and that seemed good enough for me. The rifle performed the same in Africa as it did at home. I also have a Kimber 8400 in 300WSM that I have considered using for plainsgame. That rifle is free floated and is quite accurate with factory ammo. I assume it would behave the same in Africa. | |||
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All of my rifles are fully glass bedded (action and barrel channel) and the barrels free floated. Two of the actions are Pillar bedded also. NRA Endowment Life Member | |||
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M70 300 Win Mag, free floated barrel, epoxy bedded action. Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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