The free floating barrel is kind of a surprise. When you take the stock off see if there is still a pressure pad at the forend tip. My .243 Hawkeye purchased in January was free floated to the barrel shank as well so it was interesting to see they left the pad in the stock. Looks like they changed the action inletting to raise the barrel but didn't change the stock making program to remove the speed bump.

Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
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