You`re killin` me Smalls...Take your pic. Just about anything now days will shoot better than the average person if your using decent ammo. I would be totally comfortable with a ruger American on the cheaper end or tikka t3x.
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Interesting, never heard anyone call a Savage 99 accurate before.The really accurate rifles have a lever not a bolt.
Hawken maybe?My .54 caliber black powder Hawkins has never missed. It isn't a bolt action though.
My '35 EG in .300 shot the Hornady Superformance around 1.5 inches @ 100 w a Lightfoot mount and scope. I thought that good enough.Interesting, never heard anyone call a Savage 99 accurate before.
My landowner doesnt hunt and doesnt care.Just a thought, in all the posts I saw 2 calibers I’d allow on my property. The 44 pistol round and the 30-30. The new law re: deer hunting is why I no longer allow deer hunting except myself and the neighbor. If you already have permission this may not matter, if you don’t it’s something to consider. I’m not the only one, permission is harder to come by nowadays the rifle laws are one of the reasons. Just a thought.
Here`s a question for any gunsmiths: What may be going on when a bolt-action rifle is hard to close the bolt with a cartridge in the chamber? With nothing in the chamber, the action is super smooth, but with a cartridge being pushed into place, it takes a lot more force to close the bolt than it ought to. So much force that I`m really uncomfortable forcing it that much.
I've never considered a 30-06 to be a particularly heavy recoil cartridge. I remember going with a buddy's dad and his hunting partner to sight in their rifles (30-06) for a western elk hunt. We were about 12 or 13 at the time. The old guys were making comments about the recoil like, "Man, that will bloody your nose!" They let us shoot and I was thinking that the recoil wasn't any more stout than my Mossberg .410 shotgun. Stock tight against the shoulder and it's no big deal to me.I know I pulled one shot in this group, but my shoulder was done shooting
Headspace was my first thought too.Bad headspace, bad ammo, carbon deposits?
Headspace was my first thought too.
That sounds like a normal Mosin Nagant.I had some surplus 7.62x54r ammo that almost took a pounding from a rubber mallet to work the bolt.