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Totally free floating the barrel with at least 1/16" clearance from the receiver forward is best. More clearance at the tip if the stock fore end is flimsy and barrel is heavy. The decades old dollar bill test (often done wrong; rifle not horizontal resting on stock toe and fore end tip) is one of the oldest myths on billboards by the highway to best accuracy. The barrel whips and wiggles before bullets leave the muzzle; there needs to be clearance so it's repeatable from shot to shot. Fore ends resting on anything bend up from the rifle's weight.
99% of all barrels that change point of impact as they heat up are improperly fit to the receiver. Receiver face wasn't squared up to the barrel tenon thread axis.
Conventional bedding done right works as well as pillar bedding. Some match winners and record holders prefer conventional methods. Few people know why pillar bedding was first used. It started with the original synthetic stocks made by Lee Six that had cores softer than wood stocks.
Last edited by Bart B.; September 8, 2020 at 06:33 AM.
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