I traded for a Savage 340 a week or so ago. I may have got the short end of the deal, but that ain't the first time. It also gives a challenge. This thang wouldn't shoot wortha darn. It's a 30-30 and it's the onliest gun I've EVER had that wouldn't keep the shots all in a pie plate at 50 yards. 3 out o 5 would group OK then there'd be two fliers about 8" high in a group(if you call two shots a group). Dangdest thang, it'd repeat that the next five. Tain't never seen such.
I hope this won't be considered a double post, but my intentions here are a bit differnt. I posted a 'smith question below.
You see, the action don't fit the stock real well; I mean you can see daylight thru the stock to the trigger guard and no one has touched it. It certainly looks factory. I bore sighted this thang and have run out of "UP" adjustment on 3 differnt scopes. I put 4(four) layers of tape under the rear scope in the ring and got it to shoot about 2 inches low AT 50 YARDS.
I did the brass screw and lapping compound on the muzzle crown(it looked kinda like a hacksaw job that was fairly well done....but. This, along with loosening the barrel band so it wasn't too tight, did make it group pretty good. It kept a hasty 3 3 shot session all in about 1.5" at fifty yards. I wasn't trying to particularly hard to make em touch; it was 30° outside. So this was completely acceptable to me. Only thang is that it went to shootin a foot low, but consistently.
Anybody know if the barrel band is supposed to be tightened down real tight or snug or what?
Think I might have to get a new scope mount just to see if I can get it to shoot real well. I would like to put a receiver sight on it some day and use it for my 30 cal boolit gun. That's the mainest reason I traded for it. I'm just shooting j-bullets right now, cause I know their demeanor(maybe) and I really haven't shot any boolits of 30 cal before. This is gonna be my indoctrination, so I want it shooting fairly good before I switch over; after a thorough, thorough cleaning!
I want ya'll to know, this is mainly YOUR FAULT!