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Bolt lug contact and amount of free float
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<blockquote data-quote="DJ Fergus" data-source="post: 1912405" data-attributes="member: 93895"><p>Mine was a Remington hammer forged barrel. Im not saying that absolutely all of them will be temperamental but I believe mine might just have had quite a bit of stress in the metal. Any time I used a powder with it that warmed the barrel, even on the first shot it would start to walk. When I swapped to a powder that only got the barrel warm after the 3rd shot, it seemed to print 3 shot groups better. And would print them in succession to the same poi after a long cool. The funny thing with that rifle is that with the hotter burning powders, I could fire one shot, put the rifle up overnight, go back the next day and put another round through the same hole from the prior day. And it would repeat that to the next day. If I tried a three shot group in one day it would shoot about MOA sized groups, which wasn't bad but I wanted just s little better than that. Any way, it looks like you are doing something right with what you have going on. None of my troubles with the rifle I mentioned may even have any thing to do with your situation. I have have a heavy hammer forged barrel that also shoots really well. I just think a light contour hammer forged barrel may be more susceptible to walking with heat. Again, I'm not saying that they won't easily shoot moa or better 3 shot groups. But it may be a little more challenging with them getting sub 1/2 moa groups vs a heavy barrel. And sub 1/2 moa groups are great but really may not even be needed depending on how far you are shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DJ Fergus, post: 1912405, member: 93895"] Mine was a Remington hammer forged barrel. Im not saying that absolutely all of them will be temperamental but I believe mine might just have had quite a bit of stress in the metal. Any time I used a powder with it that warmed the barrel, even on the first shot it would start to walk. When I swapped to a powder that only got the barrel warm after the 3rd shot, it seemed to print 3 shot groups better. And would print them in succession to the same poi after a long cool. The funny thing with that rifle is that with the hotter burning powders, I could fire one shot, put the rifle up overnight, go back the next day and put another round through the same hole from the prior day. And it would repeat that to the next day. If I tried a three shot group in one day it would shoot about MOA sized groups, which wasn't bad but I wanted just s little better than that. Any way, it looks like you are doing something right with what you have going on. None of my troubles with the rifle I mentioned may even have any thing to do with your situation. I have have a heavy hammer forged barrel that also shoots really well. I just think a light contour hammer forged barrel may be more susceptible to walking with heat. Again, I'm not saying that they won't easily shoot moa or better 3 shot groups. But it may be a little more challenging with them getting sub 1/2 moa groups vs a heavy barrel. And sub 1/2 moa groups are great but really may not even be needed depending on how far you are shooting. [/QUOTE]
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