[Newbie] Can I float the Barrell on a CZ 452?

[Afy]

If so how?

It shoots above my shooting capabilities as is, though if possible I would like to do so.

I am an absolute newbie at this...

 

[GardDog223]

Partial repost of mine from another thread on March 15

I set off on a project to personally customized my 300 WSM Win 70. I pillar bedded the receiver to "float the barrel" & epoxy bedded the new stock. I, by no stretch of imagination, am a gunsmith, but I was able to successfully add both of these improvements with no problem. I am now in the <1" range where I wanted to be. I have read that pillar bedding alone would have been sufficient & I have read that doing both is the best method.

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[JNewell]

You probably can, but should you? My experience with quite a few rifles has been that almost all "sporter" weight rifles have shot better without being freefloated. Only the really stiff barrels seem to do better with zero contact. I have freefloated two that shot enough worse that I've gone back and created a pressure point at the tip of the forearm, which has noticeably improved accuracy (a Win 70 lightweight and a Ruger 77 standard weight).

 

[Claude Clay]

float

quick & dirty...remove from stock( 2 screws) & put a washer or 2 between action & stock on bolt closest the front sight. If it improves accuracy, fine, if not easy to uninstall & no damage to your stock.

 

[Sunray]

"...It shoots above my shooting capabilities as is..." Rule Number One. If it works, don't fix it.
Floating a barrel may or may not improve the accuracy. Some rifles like it, some don't. Unfortunately, the only way to tell is to float the barrel and shoot it. You remove the high spot on the stock in the barrel channel. Do not remove any wood under the chamber area though. Just the barrel. If it doesn't improve the accuracy (like JNewell says, it probably won't), just put the pressure point back in with some bedding compound(buy an Acraglas kit). That'd go about an inch aft of the end of the forestock.