Forearm floating vs fully bedding the forearm?

[Murphy]

Thanks for the great info on this site, simply the best to be found about the Handi Rifle no doubt about it.

I'm in the process of currently prepping my Handi's barrel (.308) by giving it a good cleaning. It's a brand spankin' new baby. Past experience with other firearms over the years have taught me, CLEAN THE BARREL BEFORE ANYTHING. EVEN NEW ONES

I'll of course give it a bit of a breakin period before any serious attempts at groups with handloads. Which are all I shoot in my firearms.

Now for my questions: I see where it seems to be the popular thing to free float the barrel on the Handi. I've a pretty good grasp on how to do this from reading posts. I've floated many other barrels on traditional rifles, just never done it with a break open type rifle before.

Has anyone ever tried fully glass bedding a Handi barrel? If so, what has been the general experience by the members here as to how it works opposed to free floating the barrel.

(Okay, I ask a LOT of questions for a newbie. But hey...at least I'm not dumb enough to find out the hard way!)   

Thanks,

Murphy

[quickdtoo]

As I replied in your first post, please read the FAQs and Help sticky, there are several methods of bedding the forend mentioned there, Fred goes into great detail in his bedding method which is similar to that shown in Mic McPherson's Handi section of his book, "Accurizing the Factory Rifle" which would be a good one to pick up.

Tim

[Murphy]

Thanks for the reply, looking forward to finding out if I can get this gun to shoot like some of the others I've read about here.

Thanks,

Murphy

[PartsMan]

Shoot it first!
Some shoot fine just the way they are.
Some like it floated.
Some need bedded.

[PHATINJUN]

New bbl read the breakin procedure. Kurt

[aulrich]

I got myself in trouble with my first handi with mod'ing too early.

Clean the gun.
Barrel break in as per FAQ
If an ejector barrel Polish chamber as per FAQ

Then shoot a couple of boxes of factory(different types preferably) through it to get a base line, if it shoots good enough leave, if you want to tinker or the accuracy is not quite there then start with the modifications. Or then start load development if you can get handloads shooting good enough I still would not do any mods.

But I am more of a hunter than a shooter, I like accurate guns but I will not kill myself to get that last .25" out of a group as long as the gun is accurate enough to do the job required.