A friend of mine wound up buying a nice looking little Sako Forester with a Fajen Mannlicher stock in .243. It looks almost new. I remember someone (maybe Deputy Al?) having something to say about bedding or floating the barrel on those things for accuracy. It has no nosecap but a little schnabel (sp?) style forend. It has a 20" barrel. Next to my 24" Parker Hale .243, it looks short short. I noticed a boomier report from it too shooting the same loads of 12.5 gr. 2400 and 16 gr. SR4759 and the RCBS 95 gr. boolit.
Question #1=Is there a way to bed/float that kind of barrel for best accuracy other than just float the whole thing or would that be the way to go?
Question #2=since it seems like it do maybe burn some powder out of the barrel compared to a 24" one, is there any specific powder you would recommend for j-word bullets of 70 grain weight? I wanted to load him up a few.