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I have a Ruger 77 Hawkeye 30-06(walnut stock) and it's not shooting as well as I want. I bought it off of GunBroker so I don't know it's history but it looks nearly immaculate. So the issues: I put a Leopold on it and took it out and sighted it in but could only shoot 2-3 in groups.... not nearly as good as I want. So last week I free floated the barrel and glass bedded the action (+1.5 inches of the barrel). Seemed like that with the first two three shot groups I had improvement. In the first group the first shot was off to the right of center (5 inches) and the next two were nearly on top of each other but 1.5 inches away from the first shot. Adjusted the scope and shot a nearly identical group but closer to my zero. Adjusted the scope and then it went crazy and couldn't get better then a 3 in group the rest of the night (even with letting the barrel cool significantly between shots).
So what do you think? Forend stock pressure the next thing to try? Ditch the the gun? Different ammo (was shooting fed)? I checked to make sure nothing was loose after the first two shots (bolts and scope mounts etc). I'm stumped. I really like this gun; the cosmetics and action are really nice. Why won't it shoot?
Anyway any opinions?
Thanks!
-joe
I have a Ruger 77 Hawkeye 30-06(walnut stock) and it's not shooting as well as I want. I bought it off of GunBroker so I don't know it's history but it looks nearly immaculate. So the issues: I put a Leopold on it and took it out and sighted it in but could only shoot 2-3 in groups.... not nearly as good as I want. So last week I free floated the barrel and glass bedded the action (+1.5 inches of the barrel). Seemed like that with the first two three shot groups I had improvement. In the first group the first shot was off to the right of center (5 inches) and the next two were nearly on top of each other but 1.5 inches away from the first shot. Adjusted the scope and shot a nearly identical group but closer to my zero. Adjusted the scope and then it went crazy and couldn't get better then a 3 in group the rest of the night (even with letting the barrel cool significantly between shots).
So what do you think? Forend stock pressure the next thing to try? Ditch the the gun? Different ammo (was shooting fed)? I checked to make sure nothing was loose after the first two shots (bolts and scope mounts etc). I'm stumped. I really like this gun; the cosmetics and action are really nice. Why won't it shoot?
Anyway any opinions?
Thanks!
-joe