I just purchased a new Savage 10T in .223. I added a new out of the box Vortex Viper 6-24x50 using new Vortex rings on the factory picatinny rail. I loaded 50 new Lapua brass with Winchester primers, 26 gr of Varget, and 55 gr Nosler bullets.

I took the gun to the range today to shoot in the barrel and zero the scope. The elevation adjusted to the correct poi but I had to use quite a bit of the adjustment. The windage was a different story. The gun shot 14” to the left and I ran out of adjustment. The group, at 100 yards, was 1” MOA. I took the scope off the rail and remounted it torquing the screws to 20” lbs with only very minimal difference to the poi.

If the rifle didn’t shoot a good group I would have suspected the rings were the problem (?). I haven’t take the scope off yet to see if the rail is mounted wrong but also have my doubts that could be causing the problem.

Asking for help or suggestions for ways to begin to figure out how to correct the problem.

Thanks in advance.