they are the 2 large screws that hold the action to the stock. 1 is on the trigger guard, the other is just foward the magazine well. they must be tight. sorry if i you already knew the other stuff, i wasnt sure how much shooting knowledge you had, i was just making general suggestions, you sound like your shooting form is correct. good luck.

No need to apologize, they were great questions. I will have to look at those screws.

my action is quite tight thou so i am assuming they are tight, but will check. I would really like to get this gun shooting well.

Hmm, you know your action screws may be too tight, at least the rear one. savage action screws tend to run a hair too long for some reason. The bolt on my savage muzzleloader, which is the same action as the model 10, will not lift if the rear action screw is too tight , I bet if you back your rear action screw out a half turn, it would cycle perfect, also make sure your front one is tight also. it should be right in front of the magazine well, if you have a blind magazine (no hinged floorplate or det. mag.) or right under the floorplate hinge. I ground my rear action screw down a couple threads because I like my action screws tight. oh another thing, do you have the accutrigger on your model 10? if so, they come from the factory set at like 6lbs, but they are easily adjusted down to about 2.5 w/ the supplied tool, which im guessing you havent done since you would have to remove the action from the stock. The old triggers were pretty heavy and creepy too. but you can swap that out for a rifle basix trigger and would be a big improvement. Id be interested to hear how you make out , good luck.

Yep, its a blind mag, with accutrigger. i will see if i can back out the back screw ever so slightly. I am guessing that if its too Tight it could cause some accuracy issues.

When sighting in, i even had the range master try it and he couldn't shoot any better than me. He used the sled and has sighted in 1000's of rifles. he suggested scope but we tried that and same result with a diff scope and rings. I think its the action being way too tight.

I have a led sled too , i bought it to sight in slug guns. for regular rifles I like to use a front rest and rear bag, w/ the butt of the stock pulled tight to my shoulder.

BTW - .243 Win.

TikKa......................why not ?!?

I checked the action screws and they where not tight. Not loose, but not tight.. i was able to turn them in tight almost 1 complete revolution. I hope this is the answer. It would save me money!

you do know the 7mm-08 is just a .308 necked down to accept 7mm bullets right? :shrug:

Stock bedding?
 

Perhaps the bedding of the action in the stock is the problem. Hard to imagine a scoped, bolt action rifle shooting 7" groups at 100 yds. though.

Did someone hijack this thread ???