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Anything that puts pressure any place with any force on the barrel from shot to shot degrads the accuracy it has.
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Nope. There is no such rule. Sometimes free floating improves accuracy; sometimes it doesn't; sometimes it makes it worse.
I think the only rule about free floating is that it makes a rifle less likely to lose point of aim over time due to moisture changes in the stock. I free float all my hunting rifles for that reason, but not to increase accuracy.
I have one rifle that does, if fact, shoot better free floated, but for the rest of mine, free floating proved fundamentally irrelevant to accuracy. I have a friend whose .30-06 insists it have some fore end pressure to shoot well. I would sell it, because of my desire to free float to preserve consistency, but he won't. It shots VERY well with the right pressure. Every gun is unique.