Hi Everyone,
Just a quick question but I was wondering if someone could help elaborate on a this subject for me. I have an old Sako AV in .270 winchester and after a particuarly wet outing I stripped it right down for a real good clean and noticed the pad supporting the barrel I had seen it before but not given it much thought. Now I understand that the idea with free floating barrel's is that nothing upset's the harmonic's in the barrel as the rifle is fired, however the barrel on my Sako is well supported by a 1 1/2" pad about halfway along the barrel and I know the rifle is a good 20ish years old so I was wondering if this pressure point bedding is old hat? Mind you I have no intention of changing the rifle as with my own load's it'll shoot under an inch at 100 yards off my carrysack (if I do my bit) and always under 1 1/2" with good factory ammo.
Thanks
Snag
Just a quick question but I was wondering if someone could help elaborate on a this subject for me. I have an old Sako AV in .270 winchester and after a particuarly wet outing I stripped it right down for a real good clean and noticed the pad supporting the barrel I had seen it before but not given it much thought. Now I understand that the idea with free floating barrel's is that nothing upset's the harmonic's in the barrel as the rifle is fired, however the barrel on my Sako is well supported by a 1 1/2" pad about halfway along the barrel and I know the rifle is a good 20ish years old so I was wondering if this pressure point bedding is old hat? Mind you I have no intention of changing the rifle as with my own load's it'll shoot under an inch at 100 yards off my carrysack (if I do my bit) and always under 1 1/2" with good factory ammo.
Thanks
Snag