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Weatherby 270 mag can't hit the broad side of a barn
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<blockquote data-quote="baydog" data-source="post: 1029536" data-attributes="member: 76072"><p>Ok first things first..Thanks to everyone I believe we got this puppy figured out and shooting WAY better! Started out scrubbing the barrel but just wasn't seeing any black on my patches after scrubbing with a barrel brush with a copper solvent and cleaning solvent and what ever else we had laying around. The worst we got was a little gray on the patches and thats it...Next thing we done was the dollar bill trick and it won't make it but about 2 inches down the front of the stock and stop. So the next thing was to pull the action out of the stock but before I did I grabbed the scope that is mounted on the gun and with the gun in my old school mag tamer (not sure if evrey one knows what a mag tamer is because it's so old but it's a rifle vise that mounts to the bench and takes the recoil) anyway I grabbed the scope with both hands and tried twisting the scope and trying to feel for movement in the scope mounts or the action moving in the stock but couldn't feel or see anything moving. Took the action out of the stock. When I took the screws out that hold the action to the stock they weren't very tight. Broke them both loose with a screw driver, using only the tips of my thumb and pointing finger broke them loose. That was the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed was that the stock had a nice looking bedding job except where the dollar bill stopped was a section that was plain to see they had not cut a troff there for the barrel to lay in and it was actually stepped up to purposely touch the barrel and I could see a black print left in the step where the barrel had been sitting on it. I wanted to sand this place out but figured that it was there for a reason so I left it alone and put the action back in the stock and thought I would come back to it as a last resort thing. Tighten the hold down screws starting with the back one first then the front torquing them to 35 inch pounds each. With the original scope changed out and not a whole lot of ammo left, started to shoot at the 2 foot square piece of plywood that my buddy had stapled the target to the top of the plywood instead of the center. So i drew a black dot at the bottom of the target to shoot at so we could make the most out of the 2 foot square of plywood. Before I had took the action out of the stock I shot a total of 4 times, 2 shots then a 15 minute cool down time. I numbered the shots in the order they were shot. After the #2 group is when I took the gun out of the stock and put the action back in the stock and torqued the screws. aiming at the black dot at the bottom of the target you can see after the #2 group the groups improved big time and consistent. after each group of 2 shots being fired I adjusted on the scope moving it down and to the right after each group until we got down to having 2 bullets left. Wanting to know if it was the action being loose causing the problem or a bad scope I put the orginal scope back on the gun and they were the last 2 shots I fired. The 2 shots were close enough for me to decide that it was the torquing of the hold down screws is what fixed the problem. Thanks again to every one for your time and help</p><p></p><p>Scotty</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baydog, post: 1029536, member: 76072"] Ok first things first..Thanks to everyone I believe we got this puppy figured out and shooting WAY better! Started out scrubbing the barrel but just wasn't seeing any black on my patches after scrubbing with a barrel brush with a copper solvent and cleaning solvent and what ever else we had laying around. The worst we got was a little gray on the patches and thats it...Next thing we done was the dollar bill trick and it won't make it but about 2 inches down the front of the stock and stop. So the next thing was to pull the action out of the stock but before I did I grabbed the scope that is mounted on the gun and with the gun in my old school mag tamer (not sure if evrey one knows what a mag tamer is because it's so old but it's a rifle vise that mounts to the bench and takes the recoil) anyway I grabbed the scope with both hands and tried twisting the scope and trying to feel for movement in the scope mounts or the action moving in the stock but couldn't feel or see anything moving. Took the action out of the stock. When I took the screws out that hold the action to the stock they weren't very tight. Broke them both loose with a screw driver, using only the tips of my thumb and pointing finger broke them loose. That was the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed was that the stock had a nice looking bedding job except where the dollar bill stopped was a section that was plain to see they had not cut a troff there for the barrel to lay in and it was actually stepped up to purposely touch the barrel and I could see a black print left in the step where the barrel had been sitting on it. I wanted to sand this place out but figured that it was there for a reason so I left it alone and put the action back in the stock and thought I would come back to it as a last resort thing. Tighten the hold down screws starting with the back one first then the front torquing them to 35 inch pounds each. With the original scope changed out and not a whole lot of ammo left, started to shoot at the 2 foot square piece of plywood that my buddy had stapled the target to the top of the plywood instead of the center. So i drew a black dot at the bottom of the target to shoot at so we could make the most out of the 2 foot square of plywood. Before I had took the action out of the stock I shot a total of 4 times, 2 shots then a 15 minute cool down time. I numbered the shots in the order they were shot. After the #2 group is when I took the gun out of the stock and put the action back in the stock and torqued the screws. aiming at the black dot at the bottom of the target you can see after the #2 group the groups improved big time and consistent. after each group of 2 shots being fired I adjusted on the scope moving it down and to the right after each group until we got down to having 2 bullets left. Wanting to know if it was the action being loose causing the problem or a bad scope I put the orginal scope back on the gun and they were the last 2 shots I fired. The 2 shots were close enough for me to decide that it was the torquing of the hold down screws is what fixed the problem. Thanks again to every one for your time and help Scotty [/QUOTE]
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