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Are you sure the scope isn't the issue?
maybe he's shooting offhand.
if your base and rings are solid then there is no way its the ammo....any crappy factory ammo wont "group" at 20" at 100 yards....scope problem
Quote from: brew on March 05, 2018, 06:28:19 PMif your base and rings are solid then there is no way its the ammo....any crappy factory ammo wont "group" at 20" at 100 yards....scope problemI don't know. I have done a scope swap and had one rifle shoot great with both scopes at any range and the other wouldn't stay on the 2'x2' cardboard at 50 yds.
Do you know if the rifle was broken in properly?
Did you check the base screws and make sure they were tight before installing the rings?How are you resting the rifle on the sandbags, forearm or barrel? What grain bullet are you shooting? Found this, sounds like a lot of what you are experiencing:http://ammosmith.com/forum/index.php?topic=6597.0
Quote from: bobcat on March 05, 2018, 04:50:09 PMAre you sure the scope isn't the issue?I'm willing to bet the issue is scope related.
If you have definitively ruled out the scope and the ammunition and the shooter, then it's time to move on and sell it.
I couldn't sell a gun that shoots 12 inch "groups." Give it away, maybe.
For the first trip, all I did was defoul the barrel and buy some 80 grain ammo. Neither of those seemed to make a difference.
QuoteFor the first trip, all I did was defoul the barrel and buy some 80 grain ammo. Neither of those seemed to make a difference.If you have ruled everything else out mounts, scope, hinge pin, and barrel twist, and you have other guns that shoot well by shooting them the same way you are shooting this gun then it sounds like either the rifling is worn out or fouled. If it's fouled with copper then defouling can be tough to do. For a couple years I had a gun that I thought I had defouled but I wasn't really getting the job done, I took it to a gunsmith and he pointed out that he could see copper fouling, I bought some copper cleaner and used it aggressively over a couple day period until I could let the gun sit wet with cleaner in the barrel for several hours and when I ran a patch through it came out perfectly clean with no blue discoloration. The group that gun shoots tighened up to 30% of what it had been shooting.
Well I have read all the guesses on this thread.I have a few things that may help that are not guesses.First of all just a little history on me. I am 77 years old .I have been shooting break action single shot rifles for a lot of years. H&R, NEF, Savage & Rossi.You can not get good groups resting the forearm or barrel on sandbags or a rest.You need to rest behind the hinge point ,or action.Also remove the forearm and put a O-ring around the stud that the screw goes into then replace forearm. hope some of this helps someone.
Break action rifles and shotguns look great up on the wall with the breach open!
Quote from: Alchase on March 20, 2018, 09:56:18 AM Break action rifles and shotguns look great up on the wall with the breach open!I've got a couple that say they're good for uses other than that.