My hunting rifle is an Omega X7 with a 1X scope mounted. Here lately i have been doing preliminary preparation for hunting season. Different bullets have seemed to shoot kinda OK, but every once in awhile there seemed to be a flier. Thinking maybe the scope mount might be loose, i checked that out, and discovered the action wobbled in the stock. The wobble didn't go away when i tightened the lug screws, so i had to disassemble the rifle. That is when i discovered the lugs were loose on the barrel. To get at the rear screws one has to remove the trigger from the rifle; this isn't particularly fun. Tightening the screws requires a tiny little torx driver, and i had to grind off part of the hex to get the driver through the lug to the screws. Think it was a T7. Instead of tightening them, i removed them one at a time, applied red loctite; then tightened them.

Knowing the rifle wouldn't be aimed properly, i went out this morning to shoot, see, and adjust. After several shots, and adjustments, the rifle seemed to be consistent, so a move to 200 yard was made. Hopefully the rifle will work good later, when it cools off, and hunting season is really near.