Quote Originally Posted by mattri
Thanks for the reply. At the moment the gun is completely stripped down. Going to give everything a good cleaning, refinish the stock and re-blue the metal.

You mentioned bedding the barrel along with the action, so the barrel isn't floated?
We tried a free float job on a 340. Litterally couldnt hit a 3 foot square at 100 yards with any load. It's the single action screw design of the 340 that makes it impractical, the barrel bounces all over creation on every shot. Same rifle acra-glass bedded from behind the recoil lug forward to the tip of the forearm: it suddenly became a tack driver.

Of course, that was after I bought the new barrel and had a machinist make me a barrel nut wrench for the 340.