Weatherby pressure point inside the forend of stock

[Venado]

i have a weatherby .300 ULW "26" barrl and i could not pass a dollar bill between the stock & barrel becouse the barrel is not free floated it has a pressure point in the forend that holds the barrel.

has some one reduced pressure point in the forend that holds the barrel on that rifle to leave the barrel free floating ?

could it affect in accuracy ?

 

[7mmfan]

My buddy and I played with this on his 300 Weatherby with mixed results. Its quite common on Weatherby and Remington rifles. It saves money with stock fitting. Some shoot better with it and some without it. You can always try freefloating it and if it doesn't shoot build the area back up with acraglass.

Brad

 

[dronofrio]

I have several Weatherby rifles and have found that with most of the factory stocks the pressure point makes quite a difference in the accuracy. When freefloated, one rifle in particular shoots patterns rather than groups, but when pressure is applied to the forend, groups shrink to less than 1 in. at 100 yards.

 

[Anonymous]

I agree with Brad and dronofrio. It was common to try pressure bedding the forend of Lee-Enfield No4 Mk1 for target competitions. So I wouldn't be concerned with pressure bedding. Shoot it and see what happens. Like Brad says you can always try free floating latter.

 

[transonic]

Venado
I have 2 Webee's, accuracy was not the best with Hornady bullets. We free floated the barrels on both rifles, tried Nosler BT. Wow, what a differance, I cannot do it all the time, but 1 hole groups have happened.

transonic

 

[Tom Brush]

This is my first post! I am a little late but maybe I can help.

I have the .270 Win. Weatherby Ultra Lite. I found that the barrel was touching on the sides of the stock and that the pressure at the tip was too great. I relieved the sides and cut the front pad down. The first two 3-shot groups were .161 I only had 6 bullets left so it was not much of a test. Before working on the stock I could get two shots close together but as the barrel heated the 3rd always opened the group to just over 1".

 

[Blaine]

My Savage 110 in 270 had the same pressure point in the factory stock. I took it out and floated the barrel and cut my groups by nearly 1/3. I tried a Ramline stock on it for many years, and it was floated, but not enough. When I took the action out of the stock, I found where the barrel had been rubbing on the sides till it actually wore off the blueing. Now I have the original factory stock back on and it's like a whole new gun. :grin:

Blaine