E. R. Shaw barrels

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Check all the fasteners, is your parallax set up well? Swap the scope for a known good scope.
Sometimes it's the nut behind the butt. Have someone else shoot it.

Taylorbok said:

Check all the fasteners, is your parallax set up well? Swap the scope for a known good scope.
Sometimes it's the nut behind the butt. Have someone else shoot it.

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All reasonable. But the "nut behind the butt" can often be discerned by the bug hole that one rifle shoots on the same day as another sprays them like a water pistol, from the same shooter, same conditions, same rest.

I like to take several guns to the range including a known shooter. I'll shoot a 5 shot group from a known shooter. Sometimes that group is also shaky -- tells me either I or the conditions were suspect. Hate that when it happens, but at least you can put an asterix next to the results and note that *all loads were poor this day.

justinp61 said:

I prefer my barrels to shoot well, being pretty is low on the list.

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My previous picture showed that the barrel is a shooter.
Why not have both?

I hate the thought that I paid for a "premium" barrel, then have to pay to ship it and get it reblued.

My friends Douglas barrel is a shooter also. But Douglas doesn't do their own bluing. You have to send a separate check for the person that does the bluing for them. Kind of a PITA.
And while the bluing was decent, it wasn't the quality of ER Shaw's bluing.

snox801 said:

Wish I could help all my shaw barrels have shot well. Same with the rifles I got from them. Start with the basics and double check everything.

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I bought a ER Shaw 257AI roberts many years ago. So I went out and was firing it for the first time. pulled the trigger and it didn't sound right. I ejected the case and it dorked up the case. So I fired a second and the same thing. The case was bulged on the rim end. I sent the cases to the person that i talked to on the phone. He said that he chamber might have been machined wrong and he said to send the gun back and they would test it also.

I got back a whole new gun and is a most excellent 26 inch fluted hunting rifle.

It's very possible that you have say to long of freebore or some other machining error.

std7mag said:

My previous picture showed that the barrel is a shooter.
Why not have both?

I hate the thought that I paid for a "premium" barrel, then have to pay to ship it and get it reblued.

My friends Douglas barrel is a shooter also. But Douglas doesn't do their own bluing. You have to send a separate check for the person that does the bluing for them. Kind of a PITA.
And while the bluing was decent, it wasn't the quality of ER Shaw's bluing.

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This depends for me, some guns I shoot a ton and will burn a barrel in a year or maybe 2. Others that shoot less will last much longer. The ones that get change all the time I don't really care what they look like. The ones that will be around for a while I don't mind if they are pretty. That being said bluing isn't for me, I prefer stainless.

std7mag said:

My previous picture showed that the barrel is a shooter.
Why not have both?

I hate the thought that I paid for a "premium" barrel, then have to pay to ship it and get it reblued.

My friends Douglas barrel is a shooter also. But Douglas doesn't do their own bluing. You have to send a separate check for the person that does the bluing for them. Kind of a PITA.
And while the bluing was decent, it wasn't the quality of ER Shaw's bluing.

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Good deal, mine is pretty, but won't shoot, both of my Shilens do.