Normally rifles shoot better with barrel free floating. Why Ruger stocks touch the barrel at the foreend? On the instruction manual they say to avoid any removing of wood. Thanks.
It seems that more of their rifles shoot acceptably well from the factory with this upward pressure point in the forend.
The Rugers have an odd action screw/recoil lug design that makes the action very finicky to properly bed. Those who have stuck it out and bedded the action and floated the barrel seem to get good results, but it sometimes takes several tries to find a bedding combination that works.
Several here have done it, but I am not one of them!
I have had good results bedding the action & floating the barrel, I believe when you read stuff like that in Ruger instructions or any manufactures instructions it's the same as when they say DO NOT ADJUST TRIGGER.
SOME BARRELS shoot better free-floated; others shoot better with some degree of upward pressure on the barrel from the tip of the fore-end. As a rule the stiffer the barrel, the better it shoots free-floating. Long, light-weight relatively wispy barrels often require the dampening effect of some forend pressure.
quote:Originally posted by wildboar: Normally rifles shoot better with barrel free floating. Why Ruger stocks touch the barrel at the foreend? On the instruction manual they say to avoid any removing of wood. Thanks.
Winchester is doing the same. IMHO its a good way for the factory to get acceptable accuracy to the public.
Wally
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I have no knowledge of the Mk II, but I can tell you for sure that the original 77 was designed with the stock applying 12 lbs of up pressure on the barrel.
