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Hey Blktail
One trick you can do to float the barrel is to use a piece of hard plastic, metal shim stock, or any other hard material cut to fit in the bottom of your rifle common to the recoil lug. This will in effect float your barrel so it will not be making contact with the barrel channel. You could also use washers from the hardware store between the recoil lug and stock. As for thickness of material it is trial and error method to get the barrel free floated. I think most folks shoot for (no pun intended) being able to slide a dollar bill between the barrel and stock from the forward end of the stock to the receiver. You could then take your rifle out shoot it and see how it performs.
Quite a few manfactures build their rifles so that there is pressure pushing up on the rifle stock at the forward end. I would try what I mentioned above first before removing any wood from the stock. True you could put the fore end pressure back in by glass bedding it but I wouldn't do it until I was sure I needed to. Hope this helps ya. MC
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