Floated barrel

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Floated barrel is a phrase describing the relationship between the stock of a rifle and the barrel. A floated barrel is to some degree (fully, partially) separated from the handguard area of the stock, reasons for doing this is to increase accuracy and decrease the adverse effects of stock imperfections (wood creep).

This relationship also greatly depends on the size of the bullet, the size of the barrel and barrel length.

Some rifles actually work better with dampening effects that are caused by buffers that apply pressure to the barrel from the stock.