Bad scope or bad bedding
09-08-2014, 12:55 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: southwestern va
Posts: 753
what was your sighting in procedure? It sounds like it could be the gun to me....if you are shooting with the barrel hot it can change the point of impact, then you shoot it again when its cold and its completely different. How much are you cleaning the gun between sessions? Are all the rounds you are shooting from identical lots?
09-08-2014, 04:15 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Wherever liberalism must be eradicated.
Posts: 2,734
Topgun, I shoot with a Tasco Pronghorn on my 7mm. It does exactly what I need it to, with aplomb. We don't all need $400 glass on a deer rifle that shoots out to 200 yrds, once in a very rare, great while. I can keep 3 for 3 shots inside of 1.5 inches at 150yrds. After that they get wild, becasue of the heat generated, and the super skinny barrel on my Ruger M77.
What I'm saying is that its not always about the glass. Sometimes, it really is the rifle, or the shooter.
What I'm saying is that its not always about the glass. Sometimes, it really is the rifle, or the shooter.
09-08-2014, 04:23 PM
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 749
What I'm saying is that its not always about the glass. Sometimes, it really is the rifle, or the shooter.[/QUOTE]
+1
also but now you can get the leupold vx1 3-9 x40 for $200 at most place basspro cabelas gander mountian. But most of the time the scope.is the first place for look at.
+1
also but now you can get the leupold vx1 3-9 x40 for $200 at most place basspro cabelas gander mountian. But most of the time the scope.is the first place for look at.
09-08-2014, 05:17 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Topgun, I shoot with a Tasco Pronghorn on my 7mm. It does exactly what I need it to, with aplomb. We don't all need $400 glass on a deer rifle that shoots out to 200 yrds, once in a very rare, great while. I can keep 3 for 3 shots inside of 1.5 inches at 150yrds. After that they get wild, becasue of the heat generated, and the super skinny barrel on my Ruger M77.
What I'm saying is that its not always about the glass. Sometimes, it really is the rifle, or the shooter.
What I'm saying is that its not always about the glass. Sometimes, it really is the rifle, or the shooter.
09-08-2014, 07:29 PM
#17
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Humboldt County, California
Posts: 511
Don't talk to me like I don't know anything if you think $200 is a little money send some my way cause it sounds like you have some to spare if I had more expendable income I would love to run a leupold vx3 on all my stuff but for a beater rifle why would I put a ton of money in an optic especially if I don't even know how it shoots it could have needed more work than a $400 scope.
09-08-2014, 08:33 PM
#18
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 57
I got the gun used all tore up, rusty barrel, stock missing half the finish and dents and dings everywhere. When I took it home spent the better part of a month getting her back to looking good. I have other guns that I use for hunting I just wanted to get her shooting so I wanted a cheap scope to see how she does. I am shooting hand loads that I use in my other 25-06 and that one shoots dimes at 100yrds so it wasn't the ammo. So I took it apart today at work and sanded the bedding compound out of the barrel channel to free float it. The after work I headed out to shoot it and re zeroed it and 10 out of 10 hit within an inch of where I was aiming so I think I was having too much contact on the barrel.
I got my Vortex HS-T Viper 4-16x44 brand new never mounted for $350.
09-09-2014, 05:09 AM
#19
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Don't talk to me like I don't know anything if you think $200 is a little money send some my way cause it sounds like you have some to spare if I had more expendable income I would love to run a leupold vx3 on all my stuff but for a beater rifle why would I put a ton of money in an optic especially if I don't even know how it shoots it could have needed more work than a $400 scope.
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09-09-2014, 07:27 AM
#20
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Humboldt County, California
Posts: 511
In case you have selective reading, EVERYONE else has said the same thing I have, LOL! No, I don't have a lot of expendable income as a retiree, but I don't smoke or drink and the money for stuff like that goes into GOOD equipment. Try it and you may change your tune! As the other member stated, how are you going to know if the rifle shoots accurately when you put what might be junk on top of it! You might as well have used iron sights to figure that out and gone from there.