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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1997131" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>First and foremost check that all of your mounting screws are tight, not bottoming out or are stripped out in some fashion so that when they are torqued down the screws can do their job. Even if you "do" grab the scope to see if it moves, that doesn't mean that the scope is not moving under recoil. Again go back to the basics and put another scope that you know is reliable and "then" see how the rifle groups. There's not reason that you cannot have two issues going on with your rifle, try a process of elimination to figure out what is going on with the gun.</p><p></p><p>As for bedding you will get a number of opinions on the process; sort of like cooks with their recipes. When I do a bedding job usually I will have to tap the action in and have to pull up on the barrel and the receiver using the bolt to hold onto. Usually before I touch any wood I will pillar bed the action screws to make sure that once I do remove wood the action will be held up by the pillars so I don't lose the how the rifle sits in the stock. Once pillar bedded I remove about 1/8th of an inch around all of the areas where wood touches metal some areas that much wood cannot be removed because the stock is too thin; barrel channel recoil lug. I make a dam at the fore end and also a dam in the magazine box with putty. I then use plumbers tape that I get from Brownells and put two layers of the tape, .020 thousandths, starting 4 inches in front of the recoil lug. When I am done with the epoxy bedding I am left with an action that is pillar bedded and glass bedding behind the recoil lug and 4 inches in front of the recoil lug, and then a barrel that if free floated with a nice .020 thousandths inch relief all around the barrel and a .020 thousandths seam where the barrel meets the stock. Good luck with your rifle, I think if you check the sighting system and bed it the gun will shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1997131, member: 69192"] First and foremost check that all of your mounting screws are tight, not bottoming out or are stripped out in some fashion so that when they are torqued down the screws can do their job. Even if you "do" grab the scope to see if it moves, that doesn't mean that the scope is not moving under recoil. Again go back to the basics and put another scope that you know is reliable and "then" see how the rifle groups. There's not reason that you cannot have two issues going on with your rifle, try a process of elimination to figure out what is going on with the gun. As for bedding you will get a number of opinions on the process; sort of like cooks with their recipes. When I do a bedding job usually I will have to tap the action in and have to pull up on the barrel and the receiver using the bolt to hold onto. Usually before I touch any wood I will pillar bed the action screws to make sure that once I do remove wood the action will be held up by the pillars so I don't lose the how the rifle sits in the stock. Once pillar bedded I remove about 1/8th of an inch around all of the areas where wood touches metal some areas that much wood cannot be removed because the stock is too thin; barrel channel recoil lug. I make a dam at the fore end and also a dam in the magazine box with putty. I then use plumbers tape that I get from Brownells and put two layers of the tape, .020 thousandths, starting 4 inches in front of the recoil lug. When I am done with the epoxy bedding I am left with an action that is pillar bedded and glass bedding behind the recoil lug and 4 inches in front of the recoil lug, and then a barrel that if free floated with a nice .020 thousandths inch relief all around the barrel and a .020 thousandths seam where the barrel meets the stock. Good luck with your rifle, I think if you check the sighting system and bed it the gun will shoot. [/QUOTE]
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