full float handguard ?
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Varminterror
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Yup.
If you're REALLY consistent in firing free recoil from a rest and bag, accuracy isn't changed much. If you're a human being, you won't be REALLY consistent anywhere except when shooting free recoil from a rest and bags, so your bipod, sling, off-hand, sticks, etc groups will be very different between the two.
If you're REALLY consistent in firing free recoil from a rest and bag, accuracy isn't changed much. If you're a human being, you won't be REALLY consistent anywhere except when shooting free recoil from a rest and bags, so your bipod, sling, off-hand, sticks, etc groups will be very different between the two.
Hellgate
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V-terror,
Could you elaborate please.... I sight in at a bench with sandbags but have cross sticks for when calling. I also occasionally bail out of the rig and run to a barbed wire fence for a rest at a dog spotted from the ranch road. Any comments as to what to expect with and AR firing from a bench vs cross sticks? I have free floated and standard stocked ARs. Our gun club won't allow shooting from the dirt using cross sticks so I am confined to the bench or concrete.
Could you elaborate please.... I sight in at a bench with sandbags but have cross sticks for when calling. I also occasionally bail out of the rig and run to a barbed wire fence for a rest at a dog spotted from the ranch road. Any comments as to what to expect with and AR firing from a bench vs cross sticks? I have free floated and standard stocked ARs. Our gun club won't allow shooting from the dirt using cross sticks so I am confined to the bench or concrete.
DiRTY DOG
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It's your point of impact that is most likely to change depending on what forces are applied to your forearm which is attached directly to your barrel. For example, leaning into a bipod or pulling with a tight sling may pull the handguard/barrel to one side affecting barrel harmonics and recoil.
A free float handguard doesn't touch your barrel and is less effected by that.
However, a rifle will also likely have a slight change in point of impact off a bench vs off stix or freehand because of the way it affects recoil independent of a free floated or stock handguard. Might be a big change, might not be noticable, you'll have to test it to see. On my rifles it's never been an issue at reasonable hunting distances.
A free float handguard doesn't touch your barrel and is less effected by that.
However, a rifle will also likely have a slight change in point of impact off a bench vs off stix or freehand because of the way it affects recoil independent of a free floated or stock handguard. Might be a big change, might not be noticable, you'll have to test it to see. On my rifles it's never been an issue at reasonable hunting distances.