Willys46
Well-Known Member
I am looking for advice from others on a problem that I have with a rifle I had rebarreld. Here is the story. I will not name the barrel manufacture because I have not contacted them yet, I wanted your opinions first to make sure I am not being a Pain in the A@@. It is was chambered in 7 rem mag throated to accept a 160 accubond seated to the neck junction. Rings and bases are Ken farrel 20moa base with is rings. Scope is 6.5-20-40 with M1 knobs.
I sent my Weatherby MKV off to re-barreled after 14 years of abuse from hunting and shooting when the barrel was way too hot. I sent it to one of the Barrel manufactures to have them true the action, lap lugs, and fit and chamber new barrel. This particular outfit does not offer bedding and so forth. I had a local gunsmith do the rest of the bedding.
The break in period lasted for ever and it always seemed to be copper fouling a lot more than I thought a hand lapped barrel should. To this day it still copper fouls quickly. Accuracy has been spotty at best. Before it went in it was a 1 moa gun and I am struggling to get that out of it now. I have tried multiple loads with different bullets and it still doesn't shoot that good.
I am having trouble keeping 1.25 moa at 300yrd and 2 moa at 600 yrd. This is just unacceptable in my book. I have fussed with it up to 350 rounds and kept thinking it would get better, no luck.
Here is what I am looking for, Do you think it could be a barrel problem, bedding issue, scope,reloads, and of course shooter (its never the shooter). The reason I am getting so disgusted is out of the box rem are shooting .5 moa for me and I spent ¼ what I have into this gun. Would you ask the barrel manufacture to look at it? Send it to another gunsmith to look at?
I am losing confidence in my hunting gun that I bought for my self when I was 14. I do not want to make it a safe queen and have too much money wrapped up in it.
Any advice would help---just not what I expected out of my first build.
Willys46
I sent my Weatherby MKV off to re-barreled after 14 years of abuse from hunting and shooting when the barrel was way too hot. I sent it to one of the Barrel manufactures to have them true the action, lap lugs, and fit and chamber new barrel. This particular outfit does not offer bedding and so forth. I had a local gunsmith do the rest of the bedding.
The break in period lasted for ever and it always seemed to be copper fouling a lot more than I thought a hand lapped barrel should. To this day it still copper fouls quickly. Accuracy has been spotty at best. Before it went in it was a 1 moa gun and I am struggling to get that out of it now. I have tried multiple loads with different bullets and it still doesn't shoot that good.
I am having trouble keeping 1.25 moa at 300yrd and 2 moa at 600 yrd. This is just unacceptable in my book. I have fussed with it up to 350 rounds and kept thinking it would get better, no luck.
Here is what I am looking for, Do you think it could be a barrel problem, bedding issue, scope,reloads, and of course shooter (its never the shooter). The reason I am getting so disgusted is out of the box rem are shooting .5 moa for me and I spent ¼ what I have into this gun. Would you ask the barrel manufacture to look at it? Send it to another gunsmith to look at?
I am losing confidence in my hunting gun that I bought for my self when I was 14. I do not want to make it a safe queen and have too much money wrapped up in it.
Any advice would help---just not what I expected out of my first build.
Willys46