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hi fellows,
as I imaging, the BLR take down is not the best choice for LR hunting, but I took a .308win baby recently and groupings are leaving something to be desired. They are barely 1.25 MOA. The rifle is stainless, has an excellent safety system and only 20" each piece when taken down. I stalk hunting a lot, so I really want it to work better as much as possible. Because my Sauer s100 XT in 6.5 Creed delivers result holes touching each other at 250 yds. It is to say that I'm a bit spoiled and disappointed in the same time with the BLR test shooting results.
Some people say that one of ways to improve groups for BLR is to remove the barrel band.
I.e. you can check this vid for reference
- but the guy in that vid says nothing if it helped to improve accuracy or not.
Yesterday I removed the forend, also done a very light sanding inside. I can see that the laminate forearm has some generous tolerances out of factory which remedied by adding some epoxy putty pads here and there. I've removed two little spots in the front of it, just trying to make it "floating barrel". Then added some plumbing putty right in front of the anchor point, as I imagine that the forend can be stressed in this area while not having those front putty pads touching the barrel - once again, I removed those two as already said above... Inserted couple of ~0.3mm flex plastic strips in between the forend bed and barrell to make sure the barrel doesn't touch the walls, then get it seated and assembled back. Tomorrow when the putty get cured I will pull the strips out which will leave the barrelt "floating" then tighten the bolt up to 1/4 ... 1/2 turn more.
Ok, to put it short, could anyone please share his/her own experience making BLR shooting better groups?
I'm kinda itchy to find time to go to the range this week.
Hopefully these my efforts won't be like wasted time.
as I imaging, the BLR take down is not the best choice for LR hunting, but I took a .308win baby recently and groupings are leaving something to be desired. They are barely 1.25 MOA. The rifle is stainless, has an excellent safety system and only 20" each piece when taken down. I stalk hunting a lot, so I really want it to work better as much as possible. Because my Sauer s100 XT in 6.5 Creed delivers result holes touching each other at 250 yds. It is to say that I'm a bit spoiled and disappointed in the same time with the BLR test shooting results.
Some people say that one of ways to improve groups for BLR is to remove the barrel band.
I.e. you can check this vid for reference
- but the guy in that vid says nothing if it helped to improve accuracy or not.
Yesterday I removed the forend, also done a very light sanding inside. I can see that the laminate forearm has some generous tolerances out of factory which remedied by adding some epoxy putty pads here and there. I've removed two little spots in the front of it, just trying to make it "floating barrel". Then added some plumbing putty right in front of the anchor point, as I imagine that the forend can be stressed in this area while not having those front putty pads touching the barrel - once again, I removed those two as already said above... Inserted couple of ~0.3mm flex plastic strips in between the forend bed and barrell to make sure the barrel doesn't touch the walls, then get it seated and assembled back. Tomorrow when the putty get cured I will pull the strips out which will leave the barrelt "floating" then tighten the bolt up to 1/4 ... 1/2 turn more.
Ok, to put it short, could anyone please share his/her own experience making BLR shooting better groups?
I'm kinda itchy to find time to go to the range this week.
Hopefully these my efforts won't be like wasted time.