how do i make my rem 700 have a floating barrel?

[Guest BigAl1781]

is this something that i can do myself? and what are the advantages? also what dose bedding a rifle do?

[snapper]

Re: how do i make my rem 700 have a floating barrel?

First off....you can do a bedding job and float the barrel yourself...me personally would take it to a gunsmith.

The idea behind bedding and floating the barrel is...1. to give the action a solid seat inside the stock, the action will have more contact points with the stock opposed to a factory gun. 2. The main advantage to floating the barrel is so that the barrel doesn't rub anywhere inside the stock. I had a gun that after a few shots and the barrel heated up...it would start shooting a little high and right...let it cool and shoot again it would be dead on the first shot...then climb again.

I personally only have a few guns bedded and floated and would like to do it to all my bolt action guns. Is it needed? Not on most factory "deer" guns...but it will help tighten up your groups.

[Guest BigAl1781]

Re: how do i make my rem 700 have a floating barrel?

ty snapper....i got my barrel floating .looks cool IMO you can see all the way under the barrel and its got like 1/2" gap in the front of the barrel and in the back prob like an 1/8".. its dead on at 75 yds now but after like 3 or 4 shots it starts climbing just like urs....heres a pic of my shots today when we went and shot u can see when it started climbing when the barrel heated up i shot 6 times,,cant wait to see if this helped it...if not it didnt cost me anything lol

ill take some pics of my gun tommorow and you can tell me what ya think