Sandstrom22
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
I'm wondering if some of you have a similar set up and can help me out or trouble shoot this. I was shooting over the weekend with a friend who was shooting his extreme weather model 70 Winchester chambered in 300 wm, topped with a vortex viper 6-24x50 30mm tube HS-T along with a 20moa rail and nightforce medium rings. And his rifle is particulary limited to MOA travel as we shot further. With his rifle zeroed at 200yds he only had 19MOA of travel with a 180 grain pill. So I started running through the check list as to what is wrong. The Rifle isn't spraying on target with his groups so I'm not thinking it's a broken reticle or anything. And I've checked the simple stuff like rings not being seated into the picatiny, I checked his rail to make sure it wasn't on backwards or showing daylight where it seats against the receiver, screws are torqued on the rail, the rings are lapped and fit good, you can see the obvious slope on the scope from the 20moa rail. It feels sturdy and tight with a hand check. I'm kind of dumbfounded as to what the problem is. I'm thinking the tube on the scope is either bent, or the receiver face is way out of true. And I tried some other bullets along with some light hand loads and it still was putting him in the mid twenties for moa travel. I'm thinking he should have around 40-50 moa travel with this scope on This set up? My next test is to take my scope off of my 7x300wm and try it on his gun to rule out the scope this coming weekend? Any suggestions
I'm wondering if some of you have a similar set up and can help me out or trouble shoot this. I was shooting over the weekend with a friend who was shooting his extreme weather model 70 Winchester chambered in 300 wm, topped with a vortex viper 6-24x50 30mm tube HS-T along with a 20moa rail and nightforce medium rings. And his rifle is particulary limited to MOA travel as we shot further. With his rifle zeroed at 200yds he only had 19MOA of travel with a 180 grain pill. So I started running through the check list as to what is wrong. The Rifle isn't spraying on target with his groups so I'm not thinking it's a broken reticle or anything. And I've checked the simple stuff like rings not being seated into the picatiny, I checked his rail to make sure it wasn't on backwards or showing daylight where it seats against the receiver, screws are torqued on the rail, the rings are lapped and fit good, you can see the obvious slope on the scope from the 20moa rail. It feels sturdy and tight with a hand check. I'm kind of dumbfounded as to what the problem is. I'm thinking the tube on the scope is either bent, or the receiver face is way out of true. And I tried some other bullets along with some light hand loads and it still was putting him in the mid twenties for moa travel. I'm thinking he should have around 40-50 moa travel with this scope on This set up? My next test is to take my scope off of my 7x300wm and try it on his gun to rule out the scope this coming weekend? Any suggestions
