Remington 700 question

[kz45]

1 1/2 is bad at 100

 

[headshot]

1 1/2 is bad at 100

For me . I like making clovers

 

[RStewart]

1 1/2 is bad at 100

Agreed. At 100 yards you should be touching bullets.

 

[sandman7925]

Need more info. What kind of scope and rings are you using? Are you shooting off bags or some kind of led sled? Having it cryoed may or may not help, but it only cost $75 dollars so it is worth trying in my opinion.

 

[Akajun]

Before you go sanding on your stock, answer this. Where the end of the forend touches the stock, does it do so evenly around the bottom and sides of the barrel? If so, it was designed to do this it is called Contact Bedding. It is not used much any more but it does work. Many Match 1903 springfields were built using it and guns can be very accurate with it. Because of the stock touching the barrel, when benching the gun shoot it with a good rest and sandbags, resting the forend on the front bag. Hold the stock with your forward hand and do not touch the barrel or pull on the sling. Try to get in the same position every time you shoot.
If it appears the stock has warped and is touching say only the bottom or one side, then yes free float it. However all free floating does is eleminate the way you hold the rifle from affecting the point of impact. You will not see an improvement in group size, just you group shift one way or the other. Otherwise I would leave it alone and work on other areas such as cleaning the bore, making sure the mounts are tight, trigger, glass bedding, handloading as you will recieve much more of a return in accuracy from those.

 

[headshot]

Need more info. What kind of scope and rings are you using? Are you shooting off bags or some kind of led sled? Having it cryoed may or may not help, but it only cost $75 dollars so it is worth trying in my opinion.

It's topped with a Leupold vx3 3x9x50 on Leupold rings and mounts. It HAS been cryo'd. I was shooting prone but the wind was gusting pretty bad.

I went to a friends house today and shot off of a bench and bags. It shot about an inch to inch and a half at 200; I can live with that.

I guess the wind affects a bullet more than I thought. I'm shooting 180gr projectiles, I thought it would take more than a 10 mph wind to blow that around.

 

[Barney88PDC]

A 10 mph is strong. It will affect left and right but your elevation will be consistient if you and your load are consistant. So if your groups were say 1/2" up and down and 2" left and right then yes wind. If it was as vertical as it was horizontal then something could be improved on.

If you decide to sand the stock, find a deep socket the size of the barrel channel and wrap some coarse sand paper around it and it will make short work of the job.

 

[headshot]

That's what I had in mind. Actually I was going to use a dow rod. I have decided against that. The couple of people I have talked to, who I trust, have told me to leave it like it is, or buy a new stock, because it was designed to hug the barrel for bedding purposes.

 

[peterf225]

You can leave it like it is but I have found on my factory 700 rifles they shot better with a free floated barrel. If it's a wood stock you also have to worry about humidity causing the stock to swell ever so slighty which can have a negative affect.

 

[sandman7925]

Well, 300 round will be more suceptible to wind than say a 243. But I would think it could do better than 1 1/2" at 200yds. Who knows

 

[RStewart]

Well, 300 round will be more suceptible to wind than say a 243. But I would think it could do better than 1 1/2" at 200yds. Who knows

Huh? Please explain.