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BAYLIAN Cold hammer forgeing and free floating do not have anything dirrectly connecting them.

As Jon Lynn told you they are tqo intirely different things.

Cold Hammer Forgeing , is a process of rifleing a barrel, while hardening the steel at the same time. This is done by engraving the reverse rifleing on a very hard mandrel, that is placed in the bored barrel blank under pressure. The blank is then installed in a machine, that uses rotery hammers that, very rappidly pound the barrel steel, while cercling it, and progresively hammering it's length, till it is pressed into the engraving on the mandrel, forming the positive rifleing inside the barrel's bore. Then the mandrel is removed, and the barrel's final shapeing is turned, it is treaded, and installed in the rifle. This is aver expencive method of barrel makeing, and is one of the reasons that some of the better rifles of years gone by are no longer made.

The free floating, as Jon told you, is simply the way the wood, or fibergalss barrel channel is cut, in relation to the shape of the barrel, not touching it along it's length, or most of it's length. This method of bedding works best on bull barrel target rifles, with very stiff barrels. In hunting rifles, most use a combination of glassing, and free floating, or post bedding. Nothing is more important other than the rifleing of the barrel than the bedding, on accuracy in a rifle.