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scope came back.....bad erector assembly.

i sent it to leupold last week. we'll see how it turns out. from what ive been reading there has been a few problems with the new vx-3 (not to be confused with the vx-iii) i should hear from leupold within the next week or two.

bought a new savage 116 in .300 win mag. i put a leupold vx-3 4.5-14 i had on my savage 30-06 that i bought 6 months ago. the 30-06 used to have a leupold 2-7 that used to shoot holes in holes. at the same time i bought the new vx-3 i also bought a reload press and started reloading. put the vx-3 on the 30-06 and went to the range with my first reloads at the same time. i always got a bunch of flyers with some decent groups and blamed it on being new to reloading. i tried every powder and bullet combination, with proper cleaning and all. never got those tight groups again. i put the 2-7 scope on a cz 550 .375 H&H and i shoot holes through hole with that, with my reloads.........ok so i put the vx-3 on the new .300 win mag and started to reload for that. started out with factory loads to get some brass. i absolutely CANNOT get any sort of group with this gun, even withh factory. two shots together, three more a foot down or to the left. changed rings and base, to a picatinny rail and weever rings, first shot was a foot to the left, ok, new mount...adjust for the foot, it moves a half inch. this scope has to be bad internally, im going to try and sent it back to leupold. i think this scope was bad out of the box as i never got any group better than 5 inches off of the 30-6 either. anyone ever have a bad leupold out of the box???

i kicks just a bit more... id say its between the 30-06 and a 12 guage with 3 1/2 magnum buck shot.

yeah, it was guns and ammo, i found the magazine....i think its definitely worth a try, as my new cz 500 .375 h&h is a damn fouler. peeking down the muzzle, it looks like a barber pole, i just cant seem to get it all out. though i have a friend going to gander mountain today, whos going to pick me up some kg-12 and sweets 7.62......damn!!!! i should have told him to pick up some powder...why didnt i read this post yesterday..lol

you know, i asked this question before, i forgot. i love going to cabelas, but i hate the two hour ride in a ford f250 8 cyl. the trip cost $50 in gas...

wow ok

who has a good selection of brass and bullets in north NJ.....looking for .375 H&H 30-06

i guess you never lived in a city like newark then.... the criminals here dont "learn" and crime doesnt drop from word getting around. these ghetto folks are animals and most likely are going to be animals for life, because you can make $1000 a night selling crack and heroin... and stabbing and robbing us good folk, to be sworn into gangs. its real. and they are not interested in working at walmart instead of selling crack.

nj wont get it because you cant discriminate, so if you and i get one, they have to give one to the ghetto thugs in newark and camden as well. and im from newark, so they know we will be shooting all the ghetto thugs who try and rob us every night (which i think would be great, as i have a friend who was robbed and stabbed the other day. no words exchanged before the stab, just a stab, blocked with his arm luckily, then, let me get your shit). they know the civilians would put an end to most ghetto robbers. and we cant have that now could we...

i have been experimenting though with a mix of my dogs shit, miracle grow, my saved cigarette ashes, and swept up facial hair shavings as a flash suppressor. you just watch when federal comes calling for the recipe.

i just read and srticle in i think rifleman magazine (i forget, i left it at work). it was a great article that had borescope pics from a brand new unfired rifle. before, after, after clean, after many rounds on a greshly fouled barrel. from the pics it actually cleared all the copper from the standard loads. it seems like pretty amazing stuff, and it explains how it works in detail, which i wont get to in here. but being that the gas is behind the bullet, it reacts with the laid down copper, and removes and blasts it out with the exiting gas. ineed to try this stuff out, just sucks that the have a load for the .375 h&h which i could use, but no 30-06..

boo

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nice... cant go wrong with a savage...

those are some pretty decent numbers for early march!!... nice...

me and my brother are gonna try for some bass at the hook tomorrow... wirh rhis warm winter im guessing we're gonna be hitting the schoolies early, as two weeks from now is our usual schoolie explosion. has anyone been out and hooking up? every early fish we get every year has a stomach gorged full of sand crabs....so the secret frankiewicz brothers rig is ready... wink wink

i'll take any excuse to go to cabelas!!!... haha.., but i was kinda hoping there was some place closer, as i have an 8 cyl truck and its $40 worth of gas for a trip there... plus a couple hundred dollars of things i "need" while im there. also, i dont like ordering things online. damn nj for not opening the cabelas at the medowlands...that would have solved all my outdoors needs/problems..

does anyone know of anyone in north/central nj or close to the border in pa that sells .375 h&h brass and a good variety of bullets?

the 300 gr hornady soft point boat tails i bought dont have a cannelure. the 270 gr's do. i still hope i can come across something that can act as a stop. there is a generous space in front of the magazine i can put some sort of pad to soften the blow. i want to find a good material thay can easily be removed for cleaning, strong enough to hold up, soft enough to cushion.

since im sure i cant find the variety of bullets close by here for that caliber... it looks like i have another justifiable reason to take a trip to cabelas!!!! i love finding reasons to take the two hour ride there!..... geez i need a GF

i guess a non-soft point or ballistic tip, and a light crimp makes sense in solving both problems without modifications. i just never liked the idea of crimping...

they are definitely on recoil, as they havent even been fed yet. crimping will solve the bullet pushing in, but ill stil have mushroomed tips. i'd like to see some of those "stops" so i can get an idea of how to keep the rounds in place

it seems to me that any irregularity in the point will cause some sort of accuracy issues... definitely 200 yards and beyond...

im trying to figure a fix to keep the bullets in place...my savage 30-06 has a detachable box mag that cradles the round at the shoulder to keep it in place... the cz 550 has a hinged floorplate that doesnt do much but stack the rounds on top of eachother