Originally Posted by
kyratshooter
This one is free floated all the way back to the action, even the chamber area.
Most rifles do well free floated but free floating is only part of the operation. The action need to be secure in the bedding. Mossburg seems to think that as long as the stock is plastic and the barrel floats they do not have to do any further thinking or work on the system.
For the price I paid I can not really complain. If they did a complete bedding job and tuned the rifles they would have to charge like the big boys do and I could not afford them. I am getting a hair over 2 MOA as is and all work will be for the closing of that measurement. $10 worth of JB Weld will do most of the bedding and cure the hollow stock problem.
I found some 168 gn boat tailed soft points in the bullet box and I think I will build the loads around that. After I close the groups down as much as possible I will try another box of the factory ammo and see if it works better, just in case I ever have to pick up retail ammo or surplus.
In the past two months I have purchased two boxes of factory ammo and that is more than I have purchased in the previous 30 years. I have been reloading everything I shoot for as long as I can remember. I have about 2,000 empty once fired .308 cases but none loaded up right now.
I would be reloading right now if we were not having a thunderstorm. I get real jumpy when I hear thunder since my tornado experience last month and I do not want to be playing with powder during a storm, even though I know smokeless powder is not prone to going off due to static.