I have always had trouble getting my .30-06 sighted in as well as keeping it sighted in from year to year. Any suggestions?
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I have always had trouble getting my .30-06 sighted in as well as keeping it sighted in from year to year. Any suggestions?
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I had the mount put on at the gun store, not that that necessarilly means anything. The gun is a Remington 700 model, not sure of the scope but I know it is a good scope. It came already mounted with the gun. The real thing that gets me is it doesn't seem to group. Or when I think it finally is I will shoot it the next week and it will shoot somewhere else.
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I agree that scope mounts have to be properly installed or you will probably have issues. When I ran my gun shop I always used "blue" Loctite on the bases and on the rings. This is the type of Loctite that you can easily loosen with the proper tool, but will not work loose on it's own. If you check out the mounts and everything is ok you may want to look at your bedding. I personally have always preferred a free floated bbl. I've used both Accraglas from Brownells and Devcon metal bed. Both work very well for me. With the Devcon I usually do a Pillar bed and I believe that this is an excellent way to have your rifle shoot in the same place year after year. It's not hard to find information about bedding on line.
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Smells like a cheap scope to me and/or cheap rings. Those package deals usually include a scope and rings that aren't worth having. Bet a Leupold VXIII in Leupold rings cures your problem. If not it's one of the other things mentioned above. Scopes tend to all look good. The difference is inside. That's where the extra $ goes.
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Im out of town until the weekend. Ill let ya know. As far as what I can remember (the gun was a gift about 5 years ago) the gun shop owner who is a friend of ours picked out the scope and put it on himself. It wasn't a package already together, I don't think. I'm pretty sure the scope was a couple hundred dollars but Ill get back to ya after I look at it hopefully this weekend. Thanks for all the feedback.
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Sounds like problems with scope or mounts unless you are switching loads year to year, shooting session to shooting session. If you are switching ammo while troubleshooting your acuracy problems, you will be chasing your own tail.
Could be the bedding. Before you glass bed, try shimming the action forward of the recoil lug with cardboards from the tabs of ammo boxes. They are nice dense cardboard. Use enough shims to just relieve the contact with the stock forward of the action and ensure the action screws are evenly tightened to about 60 in-lbs of torque. Withthat accomplished, it should shoot consistently unless you have a scope/mount issue. BTW, what kind of rifle and scope is it?
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