Chief 101":3mgcvohs said:
How do I make a stock carbine shoot better. Can I remove the barrel band and freefloat the stock bbl? Has anybody tried that?
Many have tried one or both of those things with great results. Others, not so much. I tried it with both of mine. Neither showed much difference with the barrel band removed. When free-floated, one shot a little better and the other measurably worse. The "worse" one went back to the factory-type bedding with band and the other one remained floated. But I'm planning to replace the stock on the floated one soon and I'm not going to bother re-floating it, as the difference was so small; it's not worth the effort.
But you never know how YOURS will react until you try it, so go ahead and experiment.
Other things that can pay dividends:
1. Experiment with as many different kinds of ammo as you can find. The differences in accuracy can be stunning, and there is no way to tell what YOUR gun will like best.
2. Make sure your scope is securely mounted, and make sure you have parallax accounted for, either by using an AO scope or by manually adjusting the parallax of a non-AO scope to your testing difference.
If your gun has a heavy, scratchy, creepy trigger (as many late-model 10/22s seem to), a good trigger can have as much effect on accuracy
from field positions as almost anything you can do to the gun. (From benchrest, not so much, as you can shoot even a poor trigger fairly well from a bench rest.)