Great forum you have here.

Just picked up a 300 win LRH. Used, but appeared like new in the box, so I took the chance. It's a serious boom stick. I like it a lot, but I have a few "misgivings" I'd like to discuss with the experts around here.

1) Fliers? It shoots good, but has a "flier" issue I can't pin down. My buddy and I are experienced reloaders and shooters, so I'm ruling out "a loose nut on the trigger". The gun tends to send one out of every 3-5 rounds off into space. A typical 4-5 shot group will have 3 near touching, and one or two that's off by an inch or more. No pattern really in terms of which shot will go funky in the string.

2) The "free floated" barrel touches the stock ever so slightly on the left side at the end. Is this intentional? Could it be causing the fliers?

3) COAL to rifling (~3.56" depending on bullet) is ~0.1" longer than the magazine will tolerate (3.47"). This seems like excessive throat/leade, when most reloading manuals report COAL at about 3.3" give or take.

4) Excessive velocity. I'm getting 100-150 fps over the quoted MAX velocities in reloading manuals, with several powders and bullets even though I've stayed a fair bit under the listed max charge. Primers and brass seem fine when compared to some factory ammo I've shot, though I've had a couple blackened primers and loose pockets on the really smoky stuff. Obviously I need to back down, but I'm just curious as to why the rifle would run so hot considering my OAL is long, and my leade is even longer.

All in all, I love the rifle. Even with the nasty fliers, I'm averaging just over an inch, but it galls me to see a ragged 0.5" group with one loner hanging out an inch away.

Thanks for the great resources. Let me know what you think.