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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 531103" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>The excellent factory trigger will adjust right down close to a pound with a lighter spring it will go down to single digit ounces. To get the trigger that light you will need to adjust the sear engagement. Scope mounts on a Mark 5 are commonly messed up. The reason is the bolt pattern is the same as Remington 700. The thing is that the rear receiver is lower than the Remington receiver so you run out of elevation and if you don't lap the rings it will bend and dent your scope terribly. With the scope this bound up they will never group right. Depending where the dent is that scope is ruined. Leupold will fix it but you will have to pay for the broken parts. To avoid this the Mark 5 needs specific Weatherby Mark 5 bases. Double check them with a straight edge. I have had them packaged wrong. Weatherby Mark 5 rifles are capable of fine accuracy but with so many ignorant people wrenching on them it's amazing they are still in business. Weatherby's respond well to a good bedding job and a fully free floated barrel. The recoil lug must be fully supported or when you tighten the front action crew it will put the action in a real bind and cause vertical stringing. </p><p></p><p>Just because this is a Mark 5 doesn't mean you get the Weatherby caliber magnum freebore. Your 30-06 chamber and throat is cut to sammi specs and is no longer than anyone elses 30-06 chamber and throat. If you did have a magnum chasing the lands is almost impossible unless you shoot super long bullets and single load them. I have found no gain in it and seat to the magbox on all my Weatherbys.The smooth portion of the barrel supports and guides the bullets into the lands nicely anyway so not much to gain there other than excess pressure. </p><p></p><p>What are you asking for this beast?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 531103, member: 1290"] The excellent factory trigger will adjust right down close to a pound with a lighter spring it will go down to single digit ounces. To get the trigger that light you will need to adjust the sear engagement. Scope mounts on a Mark 5 are commonly messed up. The reason is the bolt pattern is the same as Remington 700. The thing is that the rear receiver is lower than the Remington receiver so you run out of elevation and if you don't lap the rings it will bend and dent your scope terribly. With the scope this bound up they will never group right. Depending where the dent is that scope is ruined. Leupold will fix it but you will have to pay for the broken parts. To avoid this the Mark 5 needs specific Weatherby Mark 5 bases. Double check them with a straight edge. I have had them packaged wrong. Weatherby Mark 5 rifles are capable of fine accuracy but with so many ignorant people wrenching on them it's amazing they are still in business. Weatherby's respond well to a good bedding job and a fully free floated barrel. The recoil lug must be fully supported or when you tighten the front action crew it will put the action in a real bind and cause vertical stringing. Just because this is a Mark 5 doesn't mean you get the Weatherby caliber magnum freebore. Your 30-06 chamber and throat is cut to sammi specs and is no longer than anyone elses 30-06 chamber and throat. If you did have a magnum chasing the lands is almost impossible unless you shoot super long bullets and single load them. I have found no gain in it and seat to the magbox on all my Weatherbys.The smooth portion of the barrel supports and guides the bullets into the lands nicely anyway so not much to gain there other than excess pressure. What are you asking for this beast? [/QUOTE]
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