The marketing nitwits for most manufacturers have brainwashed everyone into believing they have to have a free floated barrel to get any kind of accuracy these days. That's all fine and dandy when you have a heavy contour barrel that isn't as easily affected by harmonics, but it's a different game with lightweight sporter barrels. Look at most any sporter weight hunting rifle (and even most military rifles) made before the mid 1970's and you will find that the vast majority of them will have a high spot at the end of the barrel channel in the forend that contacts the barrel and serves as a pressure point. That pressure point helps tune the barrel harmonics by shortening the wave length and thus helping to control barrel whip. It's simply an older method to get the same effect offered by a
LimbSaver Barrel Deresonator.
Now if you're like me and don't care for the look of a big rubber doughnut on your barrel you can just add a pressure point in the forend under the barrel like they did in the old days. It's easy and simple enough to try out and experiment with and you don't have to make any permanent modifications to your rifle to do so. Simply use a folded up strip of paper or card stock to test with, using different thicknesses and placements until you find the best results.
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