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Hi everyone, I am new to deerstalking and would like some advice please on the bsa stutzen in 243.i am looking to purchase one of these rifles, and any help and advice on them would be great, thanks tim.
Thanks lads for info, does anybody know of any 243 bsa stutzens for sale,
How do they stabilize the wood?
Whenever accuracy is asked about, the first question is " barrel touching the stock"
They seem to work, and look good too. Just cant get my head round wood not moving when taken from a heated house to a wet forest or field
This is usually asked by those who follow and chant the :-
Free Floating mantra
Others who have been about a bit or that have an open mind are not so taken by this Mantra.
Traditionally stocked sporting/hunting rifles have a pressure point in the barrel channel a little back from the fore tip. In a lot of more modern production rifles this has been left out and I really suspect it's more to do with costs than that Free Floating is better. Add in the popular with manufacturers "Tupper ware" plastic stocks that flex and twist and have about as much rigidity as a bit of chewing gum.
Sadly some Kiln Dried wood is just about as bad and once again was used for cost reasons and no other despite with the Kiln operators may say. Air dried wood is the proper way to do it .
You might be surprised to hear that I am NOT a fan of free floating barrels .
This is usually asked by those who follow and chant the :-
Free Floating mantra
Others who have been about a bit or that have an open mind are not so taken by this Mantra.
Traditionally stocked sporting/hunting rifles have a pressure point in the barrel channel a little back from the fore tip. In a lot of more modern production rifles this has been left out and I really suspect it's more to do with costs than that Free Floating is better. Add in the popular with manufacturers "Tupper ware" plastic stocks that flex and twist and have about as much rigidity as a bit of chewing gum.
Sadly some Kiln Dried wood is just about as bad and once again was used for cost reasons and no other despite with the Kiln operators may say. Air dried wood is the proper way to do it .
You might be surprised to hear that I am NOT a fan of free floating barrels .
Hi everyone, I am new to deerstalking and would like some advice please on the bsa stutzen in 243.i am looking to purchase one of these rifles, and any help and advice on them would be great, thanks tim.
I've got a CF2 in .222. Not a Stutzen but a heavy barrel varminter with a beefy wenge type fore-end. Its not floated. I've often thought about having it floated but I'm worried about upsetting it. I can't fault the way it shoots. It embarrasses a good many modern and more expensive rifles. My only issue with a pressure fitted stock is that I don't like getting it wet. With my other rifles which are all wood and blued with floated stocks, I can dry and oil the the underside of the barrel and remove excess moisture or oil with a piece of thin cloth or absorbant paper slid under the barrel. If I get any of my rifles truly drenched I'll take the stocks off but if the Beeza gets slightly moist I can imagine things swelling and distorting and I feel I have to take it apart, and I don't like to keep taking stocks on and off, especially a pressure fitted one. Same issue with a Stutzen, I imagine.