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Originally Posted by dburkhead  - Leather sling added (Note: a while back I experimented with using the sling while shooting but it just threw my aim off)
- Barrel band removed.
- ...discovered that the takedown screw was a little loose. I tightened it up and the results were a bit better but the groups were still nearly twice as large as what I'd been shooting. |
These are likely your issues. In the stock configuration, that action was not designed to hold up the barrel. Loose takedown screw an indication that the whole assembly is moving around.
First test is to put the barrel band back on, with the tightened takedown screw. If you don't care for that, or after it works, put some sort of a pressure pad at the front of the stock to hold up the barrel. If that works, you can get much more sophisticated with a barrel tuner.
Bottom line is you cannot free float a 1022 barrel without installing much better support for the action. It may not happen quick, as you've seen, but it will rock.