micus
08-04-2016, 12:18 AM
Hi guys,
I was tinkering around with my 111 300wm that groups about 8" with every type of ammo ive tried... Sigh. I bought the gun off of an elderly gentlemen who didn't like the recoil of the WM for a good deal and decided to use it as a gunsmithing project.
I pillar glass bedded the action
Installed rifle basix trigger
floated the barrel/tang
Anyways, I did all this and the gun has never since ive owned it shot for a ****. I just had the bolt out of it and noticed that the bolthead and the secondary bolt that slides on it and sandwhiches the washer (not sure exact terminology) were super loose and had maybe 1/32 worth of play back and forth and spun multiple times by flicking it ( would spin maybe 2-3 revolutions on its own).
I disassembled then reassembled and its now quite tight with zero play. I think it was put together incorrectly originally at some point.
Could this have been the source of my accuracy issues or is this totally unrelated? I'm not sure if I should get excited or not yet...
thanks,
Mike.
I was tinkering around with my 111 300wm that groups about 8" with every type of ammo ive tried... Sigh. I bought the gun off of an elderly gentlemen who didn't like the recoil of the WM for a good deal and decided to use it as a gunsmithing project.
I pillar glass bedded the action
Installed rifle basix trigger
floated the barrel/tang
Anyways, I did all this and the gun has never since ive owned it shot for a ****. I just had the bolt out of it and noticed that the bolthead and the secondary bolt that slides on it and sandwhiches the washer (not sure exact terminology) were super loose and had maybe 1/32 worth of play back and forth and spun multiple times by flicking it ( would spin maybe 2-3 revolutions on its own).
I disassembled then reassembled and its now quite tight with zero play. I think it was put together incorrectly originally at some point.
Could this have been the source of my accuracy issues or is this totally unrelated? I'm not sure if I should get excited or not yet...
thanks,
Mike.