Free-floating barrel
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free-floating-barrel-218-2903199
title:
Free-floating barrel
text:
A free-floating barrel is a firearm design used in precision rifles, particularly match grade benchrest rifles, to accurize the weapon system. With conventional rifles, the gun barrel rests in contact with the fore-end of the gunstock, sometimes along the whole length. If the stock is wooden, environmental conditions or operational use may warp the wood, which may also cause the barrel to shift its alignment slightly over time, altering the projectile's external ballistics and thus the point of
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Firearm design
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-floating_barrel
date created:
2006-09-20T23:32:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T07:20:05Z
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13
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