[Adam Helmer]

model 70,

I have many rifles that shoot just fine with barrels stocked tight in the forends; they kill deer and ring my gongs here on the farm and many are "as-issued" military rifles.

My accurate scoped sporter bolt guns are all glass bedded and have free floating barrels and the gap between barrel and forend is about 4 or 5 dollars all slid down the barrel channel at once. Since wood forends can warp in humid conditions, small one dollar bill gaps are soon overridden by humidity and that floating barrel is now bedded-you gotta have a gap.

I have shot a rifle or two that liked to be bedded tight, but most like to be free floated and they will group all day long. Fold that dollar bill over three or four times if you want to float a barrel right.

Adam