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Reloading
H4350 and still no success
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber338" data-source="post: 797731" data-attributes="member: 33822"><p>It was a brand new Leupold VX3 LR, and I just blindly assumed it would be perfect. But as I slowly checked/replaced other components I realized that the only thing I had not touched/checked was the scope. So what I did was mount a scope from a different rifle that I knew shot well. BINGO! Gun shot great. </p><p></p><p>And had I been smarter back then, I should have seen from my groups that the rifle shot very consistent bad groups ... meaning two shots would be within about a 1/2 inch of each other, or often times touching, and there would always be a flyer, where the one bad shot was very much the same from group to group, about 1.5 - 2 inches from the two good shots... I should have keyed in on the scope sooner. When Leupold finally confirmed that the mechanism had an issue from initial manufacturing, it was like a light-bulb went off... the mechanism would always slip under the heavy recoil, but the slippage was always consistent. So the mechanism was toggling between two positions... so with a 3 shot group, 2 of the shots had to be fired from the same position.</p><p></p><p>Luckily I wasn't all dumb... when I got the scope back from leupold and started to work up a load, I was able to get really close to a perfectly tuned load by just looking at all my old targets/loads, and identifying which groups had the best 2-shot group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber338, post: 797731, member: 33822"] It was a brand new Leupold VX3 LR, and I just blindly assumed it would be perfect. But as I slowly checked/replaced other components I realized that the only thing I had not touched/checked was the scope. So what I did was mount a scope from a different rifle that I knew shot well. BINGO! Gun shot great. And had I been smarter back then, I should have seen from my groups that the rifle shot very consistent bad groups ... meaning two shots would be within about a 1/2 inch of each other, or often times touching, and there would always be a flyer, where the one bad shot was very much the same from group to group, about 1.5 - 2 inches from the two good shots... I should have keyed in on the scope sooner. When Leupold finally confirmed that the mechanism had an issue from initial manufacturing, it was like a light-bulb went off... the mechanism would always slip under the heavy recoil, but the slippage was always consistent. So the mechanism was toggling between two positions... so with a 3 shot group, 2 of the shots had to be fired from the same position. Luckily I wasn't all dumb... when I got the scope back from leupold and started to work up a load, I was able to get really close to a perfectly tuned load by just looking at all my old targets/loads, and identifying which groups had the best 2-shot group. [/QUOTE]
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