I went to the range yesterday and ended up irritated the performance of 2 of the 3 guns I took. Anyway, One of the guns I had problems with was a Remington 788 bolt action 30-30 that I've had for 20 years that has been riding the shelf until recently when my wife decided to go to the range with me. I slapped a Simmons 8-point 3-9x40 on it that I had lying around and after doing a "rough" sight in, she was shooting 1 inch patterns at 50 yards with my old Remington Core-Lokt ammo that I let her shoot up. I figured that wasn't to bad with ammo that was probably at least ten years old and considering it was the first time she had shot anything bigger than a .22. Yesterday I went back to the range with 2 new boxes of 150 gr Remington Core-Lokt ammo that I picked up at Bass-Pro on the way. After shooting 30 shells, I still can't say with certainty that the thing is sighted in. My left to right consistancy is dead on and repeatable. My up and down accuracy left alot to be desired. Off a lead sled, I would have shots that might differ by up to 8 inches at 100 yards. My last 3 round group I shot, the first 2 rounds were touching and the second one was over 6 inches low. I hoping that I just got a bad lot of ammo that had inconsistant powder allocations. I can't imagine that it could a problem with the gun or the scope, not with the left and right accuracy still being dead on. To say that I left the range disgruntled would be an understatement.
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RE: Bad lot of Remington Core-Lokt?
I kind of agree with cma 3366a. If that scope has any parallax problems at all, they probably will be brought out by using the Leadsled and not being able to snuggle the gun and get the same grip and cheekweld each time, therefore not getting exactly the same eye-to-lens hold. Try it without the sled.
I'll give that a shot with the last 10 rounds I have out of that lot. The packaging of the ammo at bass-pro is different then what they have at the Walmarts around here so I'm going to see if they are different lots and try a box of those and I'll probably try pick up a box of a different brand also. One of the reasons I don't believe it was the scope was because the fluctuations was always below the zero. I'm probably explaining this poorly but all the "bad shots" were low. I didn't have anything shooting above where the scope was zeroed. I'd get 1-3 good shots and then 1 or 2 bad shots that were usually 2-8 inches low and then the next shot would be dead on again.
Bad lot of Remington Core-Lokt?
