Just had an interesting experience. I have a 300 RUM that I've been trying to get good accuracy out of and I've had some serious work done to it to achieve that goal. Before the work it was a 3 to 4 minute rifle. After the work it was a 2.5 minute rifle. Obviously not what I was looking for.
Fortunately my gunsmith is a genius and figured it out as soon as I gave him the results of test firing after the work was done. It had the wrong muzzle brake on it.
I had gotten the brake before I had ever test rifled the rifle right after I originally got it. My primary concern was that it was as close to the same diameter as the barrel as possible and it had no ports on the bottom, so I could shoot prone. It does that just fine and it's a quality brake, but it's actually designed for an AR10 type rifle. It never even occurred to me it could cause accuracy problems.
I switched to a brake recommended by the Smith and the rifle immediately became a 1 minute or slightly less rifle. It's also doing this with three different loads and three completely different bullet weights and designs. The rifle is now inherently accurate and, with just one more small step in accurization and doing some load development, I'm confident it will be a rifle that shoots close to or better than half minute.
REDX / Shadow Hunter Concepts comes through again. It's good to work with people that really know what they are doing.
Fortunately my gunsmith is a genius and figured it out as soon as I gave him the results of test firing after the work was done. It had the wrong muzzle brake on it.
I had gotten the brake before I had ever test rifled the rifle right after I originally got it. My primary concern was that it was as close to the same diameter as the barrel as possible and it had no ports on the bottom, so I could shoot prone. It does that just fine and it's a quality brake, but it's actually designed for an AR10 type rifle. It never even occurred to me it could cause accuracy problems.
I switched to a brake recommended by the Smith and the rifle immediately became a 1 minute or slightly less rifle. It's also doing this with three different loads and three completely different bullet weights and designs. The rifle is now inherently accurate and, with just one more small step in accurization and doing some load development, I'm confident it will be a rifle that shoots close to or better than half minute.
REDX / Shadow Hunter Concepts comes through again. It's good to work with people that really know what they are doing.