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Kimber Montana in 270 WSM Needs Help!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Toddm" data-source="post: 328815" data-attributes="member: 19522"><p>It sounds like you've done a pretty good job of trouble shooting. One thing to keep in mind is the heat factor, it's a tiny thin barrel and if not allowed to cool between shots by the 3rd round it will start walking the group open. </p><p></p><p>At this point I would say either go all out - re-barrel/action true/bed it, or dump it. Truing an action usually doesn't do much for accuracy by itself, unless the action is really messed up. There are tons of guns that never had actions trued that shoot 1/2" groups or better. It's true that as long as you are doing a new barrel action truing is usually done and isn't a lot more $ but it all adds up. A good barrel will run $300 ($450 fluted) and most good smiths will charge $300 to chamber and install it. You can easily end up sticking another $1000 into it. Bedding it might help but again I don't think that's going to take it from a 1.75" gun to a 1/2" or 3/4" gun, especially with you being careful about torque and such, most likely it's just a bad barrel.</p><p></p><p>Myself I'd probably sell it, by the time you put $1000 into it, you could sell it for $800 and have $1800 to have a new build done. That can easily get you very close to a completed full custom build if you shop around. But if you really love the stock/fit/feel of the gun it may very well be worth it to have the work done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toddm, post: 328815, member: 19522"] It sounds like you've done a pretty good job of trouble shooting. One thing to keep in mind is the heat factor, it's a tiny thin barrel and if not allowed to cool between shots by the 3rd round it will start walking the group open. At this point I would say either go all out - re-barrel/action true/bed it, or dump it. Truing an action usually doesn't do much for accuracy by itself, unless the action is really messed up. There are tons of guns that never had actions trued that shoot 1/2" groups or better. It's true that as long as you are doing a new barrel action truing is usually done and isn't a lot more $ but it all adds up. A good barrel will run $300 ($450 fluted) and most good smiths will charge $300 to chamber and install it. You can easily end up sticking another $1000 into it. Bedding it might help but again I don't think that's going to take it from a 1.75" gun to a 1/2" or 3/4" gun, especially with you being careful about torque and such, most likely it's just a bad barrel. Myself I'd probably sell it, by the time you put $1000 into it, you could sell it for $800 and have $1800 to have a new build done. That can easily get you very close to a completed full custom build if you shop around. But if you really love the stock/fit/feel of the gun it may very well be worth it to have the work done. [/QUOTE]
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