I'm leaving Tuesday morning for western Colorado. Gonna hunt the east side of the Uncompahgre Unit 62 out of Montrose.First season starts Saturday of next week. My efforts to get in some long range shooting have been snafu'd so far. My friend who lets me shoot out to 600 yds hasn't picked his corn out of the field I normally shoot across.
Today went to do a little shooting at 100 yds at the local range just to verify my POI. It was in the 80's with no shade so just fired enough to verify. When I was done I checked the chamber out of habit before I packed up the rifle. I then shut the bolt somewhat briskly and to my horror the firing pin dropped. I repeated the process about 10 times and it happened about half the time. It is a stock trigger on a 700 with the exception of a Callahan striker assembly. It has been fine for a little over 2 years set at a crisp 2.5 lb or so. Back to the house to adjust the trigger, then more slamming of the bolt shut to test and finally some clear nail polish over the adjustment screws. I had put some on before but I guess things just worked loose. I guess better to find out now than out in the field.
I plan to do some long range shooting out in Colorado. I have a Burris Ballistic Plex reticle and I have a decent idea of trajectory based on last year's shooting out in Colorado and a ballistic calculator but I am not going to trust it. I want to see some actual impacts. Gonna bring lots of ammo so should not be a problem.
Last year's trip started out with my buddy pumping his chevy 350 full of diesel half way across Kansas. Long story short it cost us two days. The whole fiasco ended up with me hitting a bull through the chest in a hard to get to spot and stopping the trail towards dark to get some help the next morning. We ended up snowed in the tent for a whole day and never could pick up the trail again the next day. Let's hope this year goes smoother.
Today went to do a little shooting at 100 yds at the local range just to verify my POI. It was in the 80's with no shade so just fired enough to verify. When I was done I checked the chamber out of habit before I packed up the rifle. I then shut the bolt somewhat briskly and to my horror the firing pin dropped. I repeated the process about 10 times and it happened about half the time. It is a stock trigger on a 700 with the exception of a Callahan striker assembly. It has been fine for a little over 2 years set at a crisp 2.5 lb or so. Back to the house to adjust the trigger, then more slamming of the bolt shut to test and finally some clear nail polish over the adjustment screws. I had put some on before but I guess things just worked loose. I guess better to find out now than out in the field.
I plan to do some long range shooting out in Colorado. I have a Burris Ballistic Plex reticle and I have a decent idea of trajectory based on last year's shooting out in Colorado and a ballistic calculator but I am not going to trust it. I want to see some actual impacts. Gonna bring lots of ammo so should not be a problem.
Last year's trip started out with my buddy pumping his chevy 350 full of diesel half way across Kansas. Long story short it cost us two days. The whole fiasco ended up with me hitting a bull through the chest in a hard to get to spot and stopping the trail towards dark to get some help the next morning. We ended up snowed in the tent for a whole day and never could pick up the trail again the next day. Let's hope this year goes smoother.
