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Rich_Siegel Full Member Offline Posts: 177 Location: Maine Joined: Feb 6^th, 2006	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #15 - Dec 13^th, 2014 at 11:30am	Print Post
	For what it's worth, I shot my CPA 22LR last summer in a Schuetzen match. I had a #3 Douglas barrel mounted on the gun with a varmint fore stock and a bench rest butt stock. I got better groups at 100 yards with the fore stock resting on a "U" shaped sand bag on a rest then with the just the front of the barrel on the rest. I guess each gun differs and has it's own likes and dislikes. Monday I hope to try my new 32/20 barrel with a bench rest fore stock and butt stock. Hope it stops snowing by then! Rich


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Rich_Siegel Full Member Offline Posts: 177 Location: Maine Joined: Feb 6^th, 2006	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #16 - Dec 13^th, 2014 at 11:31am	Print Post
	For what it's worth, I shot my CPA 22LR last summer in a Schuetzen match. I had a #3 Douglas barrel mounted on the gun with a varmint fore stock and a bench rest butt stock. I got better groups at 100 yards with the fore stock resting on a "U" shaped sand bag on a rest then with the just the front of the barrel on the rest. I guess each gun differs and has it's own likes and dislikes. Monday I hope to try my new 32/20 barrel with a bench rest fore stock and butt stock. Hope it stops snowing by then! Rich


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rollingblock Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 399 Location: Texas part of New Mexico Joined: Aug 19^th, 2012	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #17 - Dec 13^th, 2014 at 1:14pm	Print Post
	Does the same hold true for Sharps, Rolling Blocks, Peabodys, High and Low Walls, etc., or just CPAs?


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Rich_Siegel Full Member Offline Posts: 177 Location: Maine Joined: Feb 6^th, 2006	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #18 - Dec 13^th, 2014 at 1:28pm	Print Post
	My Shiloh Sharps (40/65, 45/70 and 50/70)and C Sharps (22LR) like to have their barrels on a rest about 4" from the muzzle. Cross sticks also work well when the barrel is placed by the muzzle. Rich


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Lead Pot Full Member Offline Posts: 154 Joined: Nov 12^th, 2012	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #19 - Dec 14^th, 2014 at 10:24pm	Print Post
	I just picked up a CPA a few months ago and It shoots the .44-75 Ballard barrel and the .22 Douglas barrel extremely well. If you take the rifle at it's balance point and hold it loose in your hand, slap the barrel with two fingers and you will feel a vibration. Now slap it again in different spots till you don't feel any vibrations and when you find this spot rest the barrel on your sticks or front rest at this point. This is a null spot. During a match I wrap tape on this spot and this is where I rest the barrel on my cross sticks.


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John Boy Ex Member	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #20 - Dec 14^th, 2014 at 11:01pm	Print Post
	Quote: Does the same hold true for Sharps, Rolling Blocks, Peabodys, High and Low Walls, etc., Yes for all rifle barrels regardless of make * Barrel Harmonics ... (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) * FINDING THE SWEET SPOT ON YOUR BARREL ... (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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Dr.Maynard Ex Member	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #21 - Dec 15^th, 2014 at 6:07am	Print Post
	Quote: For what it's worth, I shot my CPA 22LR last summer in a Schuetzen match. I had a #3 Douglas barrel mounted on the gun with a varmint fore stock and a bench rest butt stock. They are worth approximately $ 2,675.00 (more or less) without sights, and standard wood, plus the shipping costs to your destination. Fancy wood and engraved metal does not enhance accuracy, it simply conveys a pleasing illustration to the viewer. .
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Sendaro Oldtimer Offline When the sight is on SEND IT! Posts: 588 Location: Saratoga Springs NY Joined: Nov 21^st, 2010	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #22 - Dec 15^th, 2014 at 6:56am	Print Post
	brudford, Glass bedding and free floating barrels of modern high power bolt action rifles is a proven method of improving the rifles accuracy. Glass bedding a forearm of a single shot rifle if done right will not harm a thing. As noted in this thread free floating a single shot rifle barrel is not the norm nor easily done. I have glass beaded the barrel of my single shot rifles and have not found any major improvement or detriment. However it can not hurt, so do it. I do believe that with single shot rifles there is another area of importance that you may not be looking at or aware of. That is the bedding of the action to the butt stock. If that area is not bedded correctly it makes for a union that flexes. Add recoil to that equation and I'm sure you can see a problem developing. I'd suggest that the butt stock to action be bedded along with any of the tang screws also. Making that area rock solid will improve your rifles accuracy far more than bedding the barrel/forearm. I'd like to also point out here that this topic started with a question about CPA rifles. In all the CPA rifles I have encountered bedding is not an issue. CPA is top quality all the way. For what it's worth there's my 2 cents. Sendaro
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40_Rod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Extremism in the persuit of accuracy is not a vice Posts: 4285 Location: Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 20^th, 2004	Re: CPA Rifle Owners Reply #23 - Dec 15^th, 2014 at 9:02am	Print Post
	I have always considered free floating a barrel on a two-piece stock an overly complicated and totally unnecessary PITA. With a one-piece stock it may have some value. But letting the barrel wag about on a single shot makes no sense to me. I was taught to glass bed the fore end with the barrel for a good even fit and to leave the space of a dollar bill where the fore end meets the action. It has worked for me all these years. When using a rifle with a non-BR fore end I use a bob sled. When determining where the sled should attach I was taught to ring the barrel when you find the dead spot that’s where the sled goes. Keep that measurement in your shooting notes. 40 Rod


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