CZ452 american Varmint barrel advice

[spready]

Ive seen various post on the internet about having a floating barrel on my CZ452 american Varmint .22lr, but just wondering how easy it is? is it a case of just removing the front fixing bolt and the dovetailed fitting lug on the barrel?

 

Since I've fitted the new stock i find that when i tighten the front fixing i can feel it moving the barrel, and the slightest knock, makes it lose all zero. with the front fixing bolt removed there is no interference between the stock and barrel, so seems to float lovely.

 

 

[welshwarrior]

I personal remove the front bolt and found it can really help accuracy in some rifles. The barrel can then be free floated back to the first inch of barrel.

 

Others have preferred the fixing left in and glass bedded to the front of this point.

[bicykillgaz]

I'm in a similar situation my self. So far I have put a grub screw inside the barrel lug to hold it in place on the barrel, I have made some pillars at work today which will then be devcon'd in place after some filing to get the length right. I'll let the pillars set, remove a decent amount of material from the barrel channel then full bed the action up to the barrel lug. The barrel will then be generously floated after the barrel lug.

 

Here's a couple of pics of my pillars-

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[kent]

The problem is the quality of the inlet of the stock not the free float or otherwise. The barrel is not bending nor is the action, the issue is you have a contact point in the bedding between the two fixing points making the action seesaw so to speak.

Fix the above problem and the gun will be fine, 452 CZs shoot very fine indeed with the front lug and are not even screw torque fussy in the varmint IF the inlet is correct.

Even if you start all sorts of modifications the gun will never be at its best till you get the actual issue sorted