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pressure bedding 10/22?

bandcollector
I was reading about installing a .920 barrel on a 10/22 and it said that you should not free float the barrel because that kind of weight (3.5lbs) should not hang from a 10/22's aluminum receiver. If you put some pressure on the end of the forearm like it says wouldn't that just be stressing the receiver the opposite direction. Could 3.5lbs really damage the receiver?

Of course I want my rifle to be as accurate as it can be but what I want to know is if the weight of the barrel would actually damage the receiver like the instructions I read claims.
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  • dfletcher
    Among 10/22 shooters it's called "barrel droop" - I've no idea if it's real or imagined. My 10/22 target rifle shot like hell with the pressure ridge at the forend, I free floated but bedded about 1" in front of the receiver and it shot much better. I bought a Volquartsen barrel and it shot much, much better. I suppose another way around the droop is a carbon fiber .920 barrel.
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  • SP45
    yes, on light barrels ulse a pressure point. on heavy barrels try bedding the barrel and floating the receiver.
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  • babun
    quote:Originally posted by SP45
    yes, on light barrels ulse a pressure point. on heavy barrels try bedding the barrel and floating the receiver.


    I think you got that backwards. Float a receiver???
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  • WinMike
    When I installed a heavy Volquartsen barrel, I bedded it in two places, "accidentally" floating the receiver. 25 shots went into one tiny hole (no sights and I was holding it in a rest). Then I installed a big-butt scope on the receiver...there went the accuracy. I then bedded the receiver (with Brownells glass bedding)and the accuracy returned.

    So theoretically, floating the receiver works....until you load it up with stuff.
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  • dcs shooters
    quote:Originally posted by babun
    quote:Originally posted by SP45
    yes, on light barrels ulse a pressure point. on heavy barrels try bedding the barrel and floating the receiver.


    I think you got that backwards. Float a receiver???


    NOT BACKWARDS [:0] You bed the barrel on a 1022 and lightly float the reciever for maximum accuracy [;)]
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  • SP45
    yes "float" the receiver. barrel is 100% bedded and all pressure off the receiver.
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  • babun
    I stand corrected. I never tricked out a 10/22. I am used to my target .22's... "lock the action in a 3 lb block of aluminum and float the 1 1/4" thick barrel".
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