Hi all. I have owned this gun for a long time, 10 years plus.

When I bought it, it was just an impulse sort of buy. I mounted a scope, took it too the range, and over about 5 visits i could never get any group under 3 inches, with any ammo.

I thought to myself maybe I have become a bad shot, (i used to be a very good shooter), and I just put it away and forgot about it.

in the last 24 months I have really got back into shooting. It is not the shooter. I now own a ruger precision 6.5mm, an iron site AR, and a CZ .22 rifle.

with the .22 rifle i can shoot 1.5 inch group at 100 yrds. with the iron site AR i can shoot sub 3 inch groups at 100 yards. with the ruger i can shoot 0.5 inch groups at 100 yards.

I took apart the savage 10fp, remounted everything, double checked everything, tightened everything..... still cannot get a group under 3 inches. What is going on with this rifle? any ideas? What are the most likely things that are wrong and how should I check them? or is it possible the rifle is just a "dud"?

the scope on it is not high end but is not junk, its some sort of Leupold 3x-9x