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bg7m
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Browning 1885 spacers
Aug 6th, 2022 at 8:29am
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The forearm touched the barrel on my 1885 and although I sanded the fore arm, I never could get it to free float.
I made some washers out of .050 titanium and placed the between the hanger and forearm, this help to get this group.
  
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Re: Browning 1885 spacers
Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2022 at 11:11am
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That was the first thing I did on my BPCR.  Then made sure the fore-end cleared the front of the action.

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Re: Browning 1885 spacers
Reply #2 - Aug 6th, 2022 at 7:00pm
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Yep, if you own a Browning 1885 do what Chris & bg7m did.  Browning designed the forearm hanger so that the wood does not contact the barrel but after buying & selling, disassembling, cleaning & reassembling well over 250 of the rifles to date I have yet to run into one with the forearm fully floating.  Usually they are real snug against the barrel.

Here's an article I wrote several years ago on the subject.
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