Quote Originally Posted by dnsmith View Post
I guess I will be the odd man out and suggest that you shoot it first and see how it does before you change anything. If do, and determine that the barrel contact is causing issues, I'd take the path of least resistance, which is sanding the barrel channel a little bit. you might be surprised how little you have to take off to make it free floating.

I assumed he had already been shooting it..He did not say if he did or did not...If not then I have to agree with you on shooting it first...In fact I know of one guy that has a savage 110E I beleive in 243 cal,that has to have a pressure point at the end of the stock to make it shoot well..Without it,the **** thing shoots 4 inchs at 100 yards,with it it will do an inch easy....So that goes to show that not all barrels need to be floated..