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Originally Posted by SWThomas
(Post 3606200)
Anyone have any tricks on tightening up the accuracy on a Reminton 700?
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Float the barrel, pillerbed the action, along with glass bedding.
Add a Timney trigger, and a thumbhole stock. |
Others have offered some very good tips here for obtaining accuracy. I will offer two more. #1 is alot of trigger time. I've found that the more one shoots using good techniques, the more accurate shooter one becomes. #2, recently a friend brought his 25-06 model 70 Winchester to me. He'd had for the better part of thirty years and always took very good care of it and faithfully maintained the barrel using Hoppes #9. The last couple of years though, its accuracy was getting very bad, akin to a shotgun patterern. So he thought maybe it was time for a new barrel. I looked at it and decided I'd try a good cleaning first. I Spent two days on it removing carbon and copper fouling. We took it to the range to try it out. His first hundred yard test resulted in a half inch group. The second group was also a half inch. I offered him $50 buck for that terrible shooting rifle. He only laughed. Bottom line, good barrel maintenance will also go along ways towards good accuracy. Goodluck with your Remy.:)
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If in fact you want to spend a fair amount of money accurizing your rifle, send it to Hill Country.
http://www.hillcountryrifles.com/pages/accurizing Otherwise, I listed earlier in this thread the least expensive way to get the "most" for your money. If new; 1st Hand lap the barrel 2nd Trigger job or replace trigger 3rd Pachmayr decelerator pad 4th Let your gun pick the ammo it likes best 5th We arear plugs & ear muffs (that's for you, not the gun - LOL !). BTW - You'll notice this one is still the best thing anyone can do (part of finding the "right" ammo for your gun) "#1 is alot of trigger time......." KT29 Nothing can replace PRACTICE !!! |
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I bought a new SPS Buckmasters .270 Win last summer. Adjusted the X-Mark Pro trigger down to 3 lbs. and it's an absolute tackhammer (3/4" at 100 yards) with nothing else done to it. The camo synthetic stock is NOT free floated but has a pressure point near the end. It works just fine this way.
I'm not saying it couldn't shoot even tighter groups by putting in a Timney (or Jewel etc) trigger, free floating the barrel etc etc but for a hunting rifle it's more then good enough. |
Mine was pretty cheap to get accurate...a GA gun collector directed me to start shooting those 35.00 a box Winchester Silver Tips...extremely tight groups. I also use a 4200 Bushnell Elite Scope...clear as a bell.
This is the Remington 700 270 |
Bed it first. Never worry about anything else until it's bedded.
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Can't identify with this problem. I have had a Remington 700 BDL-LH in .270 since about 1976. It shot well when I got it (about 1.5 in at 100 yd), a few years later, I just decided to get it glass-bedded, lightened the trigger to 2 lb, and added a Pachmayr recoil pad (just for my comfort). Since then, it shoots almost every load I feed it in 1 in or less at 100 yd. I just have to adjust my point of impact up or down depending on the load I am feeding it. I hand load almost all my ammo and weigh every charge.
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Originally Posted by stapher1
(Post 3750186)
I surprised that nobody has blamed the person pulling the trigger, I've handed my benchrifle to my buddy and watched him print a 4" group with a gun that shoot's .100" 5 shot groups.
I've watched guys sight rifles in with nothing but a bi-pod and you could watch the gun jiggle like they were in a earthquake. Guys sight their rifle offhand....p.s I asked the guy if he was burning up old ammo and gave me the answer of " No, i'm sighting the phucking thing in" and "I don't hunt with a rest, so why would i sight in with one" Then he wondered why it took him a box of shell's to get close, And no he didn't get it sighted in, he just run out of ammo. People using human silhouette targets to sight in deer rifles. Guys putting their finger(s) on the barrel. Man, i could be here all night with this, Point being we would criticize a guy for not practing with a bow but why do rifle shooters not get the same criticism? :hit: |
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