[onehitwonder]

I recently bedded and floated my model 7 predator. bedding job looked great. took it to the range and my 1 moa groups turned into 3 moa groups. I think floating it might not of been such a good idea.

Anyone bed a barrel channel on a fluted barrel before?

Any suggestions?

Think I might just bite the bullet and buy a new stock.

[krs]

Is the action removable from the stock, held in by screws? If so you could try experimenting with different torques on the screws.

Can you run a dollar bill between barrel and stock all the way to the receiver?

[rcmodel]

Try a pressure pad in the forend up toward the front end.

You can cardboard shim it to see if it corrects the problem.
Use enough shims to flex the barrel just very slightly as you tighten the front guard screw.

If it works, which it probably will, pressure glass-bed it at the forearm tip to make it permanent.

rc

[onehitwonder]

I can run a playing card under the barrel now. The factory stock had the pressure bumps on it. I figured if I bedded it I could float it . I tried to wedge something under the barrel at the range but with limited results. the stock is so flimsy it just seems to flex way too much now.

[rmw]

If shoots with press on the bbl and has a wood stock route/dremel out the forearm and glass in a pushrod to stabilize the forearm . Then clamp the bbl
in a vise "soft jaws" and hang some weight from the front sling swivel when you bed the press pad , you can regulate the amount of press this way.

[onehitwonder]

no it has a injected molded stock

[rmw]

well you can still vary the weight by hanging diff amounts of weight off the sling swivel , some guns just don't shoot free floated . I'm not sure what Weatherby currently does but most of there guns used to be press bedded

[onehitwonder]

thanks