I recently purchased a used Remington 700 and I took it out today to shoot it for the first time since buying it and the accuracy was atrocious. I tried firing 3 round groups and the shots were all over the paper. Some didnt even touch the paper. My rifle sits in a choate custom stock, has a timney 510 trigger and for the optic I use a vortex crossfire ii 6-18x44 scope. The ammo I was using was some 150 grain reloads I picked up at a gun show. They're copper plated flat nosed rounds. I was shooting at 100 yards. I wasn't expecting sub-moa accuracy or anything but I couldn't get 2 consecutive rounds withing 6 inches of each other. The rifling in my barrel isn't weak or burnt up or anything. So what am I doing wrong?
?2017-03-17T16:35:04Z
take it to a gunsmith.........
my guess is that it's one or more of the following:
1......... your action isn't sitting in the stock properly 2......... your scope isn't zeroed or mounted properly 3......... your ammo is poor quality 4......... you need shooting lessons
9 times out of 10 its a scope or mount problem ... especially if the scope had to be adjusted by turning a turrent alot it unloads how secure the internal mounting holds it .. and good secure rings is paramount, DONT use loctite, thats a mistake ive seen a few times, alot of times the rings have a 'liner' that contacts the scope tube and loctite being anywhere near it turns it into a sticky goo substance that allows it to slide around with recoil ..
first why would you buy or use someone elses reloads? buy a box of factory ammo like hornady custom an then test it. check all screws are torqued properly. check muzzle for a bur.
Torque every screw to spec or at least an agreed upon value from an online forum. Action screws to scope mounts, to any screw you can find. Check to see that the stock and barrel "float" by doing the dollar bill slide under the barrel. Buy a box of factory ammo. Make sure the crown of the barrel isn't damaged. A well assembled 700 has the potential to be extremely accurate. What you need to do is scientifically isolate the variables.