If you should ever decide to pull that rifle out of the stock, it's nice when everything goes back exactly as before.
If a rifle is bedded properly it ain't gonna shoot worse and it eliminates one possible variable.
Both true & on the money, IMO.
Bedding is always a good thing if done right, lots don't & also don't know when it's not right either.
As for free floating, it almost always works on all but the lightest barrels, such as 700 MR contour & with those, sometimes it does, sometimes it's better with the barrel bedded.
In order to properly bed the barrel itself, however you prefer to do it, floating is always done 1st & the rifle can be shot that way to see how good it is floated.
The ones that say they'll only own a free floated barrel are a hoot.
I won't tolerate an inaccurate rifle, but I surely ain't skeered of a bedded barrel done right & have a few done as such.
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