I still bed the first inch of the barrel, even with M-70's and 700's.
Old habits are hard to break and it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
And, seems to me it sorta works to stiffen the forearm, gives less room for flex. In other words, I get less forearm motion this way than with a full free float. With a high end stock like McM, that's not as big a problem as with B&C. I see more forearm flex, B&C vs. McM. I end up with less gap free floating McM's.
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