Last year I posted about a problem child 25-06 lite wt weatherby. Six lug action, injection molded stock. Shot horrible. Floated the barrel and it shot worse. I ended up buying a stock for the ultra lightweight and had it fitted to my lightweight. Grey/black spiderweb/alum bed block. It still shot horribly on paper. I started playing with the upward forearm pressure from the stock to the barrel. I found my gun needed a little more. I played with it until voila; it shot wonderfully. Too much pressure or too little and this gun shoots like crap. Now with the right amount of pressure it is a tackdriver. I would have sold the damn thing long ago but had wrapped too much money and frustration into it to be defeated. Now I like the gun. I have noticed many other weatherby shooters with the lightweight models sometimes have accuracy demons. This was my fix and just wanted to share. Thanks.

There are times when this works.....Keeping the pressure constant is always a complexity however.....

Yes, you're right...others have had this problem too and it's always good to hear about what others have done to solve the problem.

Thanks for your post.

yeah, I'll have to go shoot it frequently and see if this will be a lasting fix or will I be chasing my tail trying to keep her tuned? I've only shot it on three seperate occasions since fixing it. so far so good. I guess I could always rebarrel and try that. Why not. Its fast becoming the most expensive and least used rifle in my safe. I have good feelings about it now though and look forward to getting some shots at song dogs this winter.

I also had accuracy problems with my ULW in a 30-06. Bedded and free floated and the accuracy stayed around 2" Finally had it recrowned and it's under 1". Look at the crown carefully. It wasn't much but enough to give me problems. Just another thought.

This may well be my problem. I have a Rem. 700BDL that I had the action glass bedded, and the barrel floated even before taking it to the range. Usually this works very well with heavy barreled varminters, but this is a sporter weight barrel. The rifle, even with accurate loads, won't do better than 1 1/2" groups and I suspect I'll require so forend pressure to get it shooting well. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

I don't mess with my rifles like free floating the barrel unless they won't shoot. floating worked on a cantankerous ruger tang 77 300WM. For me the motto is "don't mess with success" If it shoots good I only put a trigger job on it. Now if I was doing a custom, that would be different. AWW heck! I'd rather be pullin the trigger than tinkerin with it anyway. good luck with that BDL!