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It has been a year or two ago that one or two of the top shooters had bench rest rifles that had the action free floated and the barrel clamped or bedded in the stock. How have these guns worked out, any body have pic's of them?
 
Or perhaps those that own them don't wish to discuss the accuracy. I THINK I know of one and it does indeed shoot and so does the driver.
 
Or perhaps those that own them don't wish to discuss the accuracy. I THINK I know of one and it does indeed shoot and so does the driver.

Would that by chance be the short horse?? Last couple times I've seen that gun shoot it sure worked good!!
 
A number of barrel-blocked rifles have shot some good groups at the NW 1000 matches. Most are Heavy guns but I know of at least two Light rifles. Most of them were Remingtons. Remington receivers are pretty well skeletonized with the big port and magazine cut so they can most benefit from a barrel-block setup.

One person's opinion.......
 
For what it's worth -- not too much, as I'm primarily a long-range shooter, I have three barrel blocked rifles. Two are long-range light guns, the other a .30BR HV. Two are on BAT actions. The reason this is done with a BAT action is to have the scope on the barrel without mucking up the barrel. The scope base is on the block, and cantilevered back over the action. Where the barrel points, so too does the scope.

The .30 BR is the most accurate short-range rifle I currently have, including 3 PPC's with I-dunno-how-many barrels. There was a PPC barrel that was better, but sadly it is long gone.

All this may be irrelevant. I can't make any claim to being a top shooter in short range BR. I might eak out a "national level" competitor for long range, but even that would be a stretch.
 
The Scoville Barrel Block

Scoville is the stock that features this as an option. I have seen one in Competition, and it shot quite well. Perhaps the owner, (no doubt at the Super Shoot), will chime in later.

I was under the impression that the main idea behind this concept was so the person purchacing the stock did not have to send the action to the manufacturer in order to be glued in. As you know, there are certain laws governing the actual taking poccession of a action if "work" is to be performed.

There is no doubt that a barrel block Rifle will perform, the doubt has always been whether one could get the whole thing put together and still be under the 10.5 pound weight limit.

Scoville solved this. I suppose there are quite a few out there, perhaps someone at the Super Shoot will set the World on fire with one, and we will hear more.

The other examples mentioned in this thread are not good examples of the Scoville idea, because obviously, there would be serious weight considerations.........jackie
 
Jackie thanks for the reply, i seem to recall it was an carbon fiber stock. There were pic's of them on the board hear at one time. Was hoping some one would be proud enough to show them off again.
 
Just got back to the Hotel and seen this thread. Most everyone with a barrel block stock is here at the supershoot shooting them. Most are Scovilles but I know of one other being shot that is very well executed. I believe it's a HV only and the block sets in a laminated wood stock with a offset foreend.

I have two of the scovilles with barrel blocks. They are exceptional performers and I'm getting the set up down. They have a little learning curve as to how to set up the barrel action and mount it in the block. As far as how I have performed at the Supershoot, lets just say my guns might fire me. This is my story....

Monday until Tuesday afternoon of this week, I couldn't shoot nothing but screamers and low ones in pratice. Then on Tuesday afternoon, the center part of my drum in my powder measurer came loose and adjusting it was a fruitless adventure. But...I did have a back up with me and after a little bit, I was up and running again and even though my confidence was shaken a little, I was back on track....that is until....

Well Weds, the first day of the shoot, the warm up looked good and I made a half a click adjustment on the powder measure. On the sighter of the first record target, things looked great, I went up and proceeded to shoot what I thought was a mid one on the record but unknown to me (until a friend told me to look at my target on the wailing wall) one of my record rounds hit a windflag or tail and went to the very top left of the target paper...which is.... a one inch penalty. Well, talk about a kick in the nuts....what a way to start the supershoot. On the second record target, I was in the process of trying to redeem myself when a trigger failure launched me to another one inch penalty. I have not recovered from this and am in the process of probably shooting more four and ones than has ever been shot in supershoot history. Primarily missing pickups and leftoffs. Another words, the nut behind the butt is loose. However, some of the others with the barrel blocks are performing well.

Are these barrel blocks any better...only time will tell. There are also other attributes to the stocks I shoot which I think are just as important. One, is the natural vibration dampening of the stock design. Two, the offset front stock. I dont think the offset has to do much with reduction of torque during firing as much as when you reach up and work the bolt handle, it minimizes any upset of the rifle in the bags for a right hand shooter. Third is the removable kneel/weight system.

Well, I gotta go so I can be wide awake while Tony pounds us into the ground for his Fifth title tomorrow. The man is on fire.

Kevin Hovis
 
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