[Blktail]

Actually though, I don't know what it means to "float the barrel". I assume it means to remove stock material so that the barrel has no contact with the stock along its entire length. I had thought that was what it meant to glass bed the barrel, but I believe that portion of the process refers to glass bedding the stock where it attacheds to the receiver.

I never considered my rifle to be highly collectable, so is Brit's advice to use a replacement stock to play with valid?

What kind of clearances between the barrel and stock are recommended when floating the barrel (assuming I have got the idea right)?

Anybody know a good online description of the processes and theories behind them?