Originally Posted by
HighDesertWolf
yea but what do you consider shooting great?? even with the barrel to receiver mating surface not being true a rifle can still possibly shoot 1" to 2" at 100 yards. some guys are happy with that and apparently remington considers that acceptable.... but look at your brass are your cases expanded evenly around the web or is there a slight buldge to one side? a slight buldge to one side is a major indicator the barrel to receiver mating is not true. and thats what both my barreled actions were doing. IMO this is unacceptable for what I paid for them. A rifle that I have been real impressed by are the Howas the quality of their barreled actions is second to none asfar as commercially produced rifles go. the barrel to action is perfect out of the box. maybe remington can learn something from them.
My brass comes out fine. I have 4 reloads on some of the brass now, which is good for a Weatherby cartridge. As for accuracy, is this good enough?
That the best load so far, I just can't find some more IMR 7828 locally.
Or how about this:
This was a ladder test I did for s**ts and giggles because I had some unspoken for RL-19 on the shelf. It's a little on the fast side for 115 grain bullets in the 257 Roy, but the results weren't too bad. I wish I had my chronograph working because I'd like to see what velocitys this load was getting. The second target was my "notes target" to keep track of the shots to figure out where the sweet spot is.
I do plan on Devcon bedding the stock and floating the barrel in the very near future. The only modification to this rifle thus far is that I adjusted the trigger down to 1.5 pounds.
To be honest, I did have one small problem with the rifle out of the box. The extractor had a burr or rough edge that caused it to sometimes not easily slide over the rim when chambering a round. It would leave marks on the back of the rims from the contact. A little bit of fine grit sandpaper followed by some polishing compound fixed this problem. It was a tiny defect and easily corrected. Is is indicative of a poor quality product? Not necessarily. It's just on tiny part and required a 5 minute modification to fix. I like my Remington.
Mike