jdmecomber
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Issue solved with the trigger, it was some plunger issue inside the trigger. It had nothing to do with inletting. !!!
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Oh well, if not for the occasional screw up we'd never appreciate when everything goes right.Washington Whitetail season opened up.
I took a buck at 650 yards but not without issue. I was having some issues with the trigger. The wear I was talking about eventually made the trigger assembly touch the sides of the inletting. The trigger wouldn't engage, it would just stay locked in the firing position no matter how many times I racked the bolt.
I sanded the sides a little and we are good to go now.
Here is the buck!! Had him on camera this summer.
Ohh
My gun tipped over and the scope has a nice scratch. I need to check my zero.
I spoke to S&B Tech Support.
We talked about the rifle tipping over falling 5-7" and hitting the bell of the scope. Jerry thought that because of the leverage and weight of the rifle that it would only need to move 2000th of an in to be off 2 moa. The scope most likely was not damaged but the movement was probably in the receiver/rail even though it's still torqued to spec. He asked what side the scope hit on, I said the right side, so he said my POI shift was right. Which was correct.
Interesting.
I actually bed my rails to the action and have even had some of them pinned on the "Biguns" mainly due to the shearing forces of recoil but it would prevent the same in the future for movements due to shock and vibration.
Bedding and pinning would be easier and more effective.So maybe this winter I should , make the rail screws larger?? It's a NF Steel Base but the screws are pretty small.
Bedding and pinning would be easier and more effective.
Even the 8x40's have very little resistance to shearing force. A single pin the same diameter would be about as strong as three or four screws.
Put a pin and a screw of the same diameter in a vice. Strike each one with a hammer from the side and you'll see very quickly what I mean.
You'll bend the pin and you'll snap the screw.
Great to hear.Testing the scope and so far, everything seems fine.