Posted: 9/13/2015 5:40:34 PM EDT
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Hello all,
I have a Savage 10 Precision Carbine in 308 that I acquired about a year and a half ago. I regret this, but the first thing I did was i removed it from its stock and dropped into a McCree Precision chassis. I wish I would have shot it out of the box so I had a benchmark to compare to... Regardless, it is in the stock and I cannot get it to shoot. I reload and have done ladder tests with many popular precision components (ie. 155 amax, 168 smk, 168 amax, 178 smk, varget, rl15, varying COL...the works). I obviously have not tried everything, but in my past reloading experience, I have not had this much of a challenge to find something that shoots decently. I did have one load that shot consistently well: 46.0 grains of varget behind a 150 Barnes TTSX...my hunting load. I have recently learned that stocks behave differently as you vary their action screw torques. I was going to try something of a ladder test with this and walk from 35 to 65 in-pounds in 5 pound increments. When I sat down to reload some ammo for this, I observed something on brass previously from this rifle that I hadn't noticed before. The brass fired from this rifle has a "bulge" in one side of the brass. Its as though that when the rounds are fired and the brass expands, one wall stays straight while the expands to the chamber wall. This occurs about 1/3" from the case rim. This leads me to think (and I'm no gunsmith) that the chamber is misaligned with the bolt face. Can anyone chime in on this and shed some light on my problem? There are obviously many variables here, but I would like some advice as to where to go or which avenue to pursue to solve this. Your help is much appreciated, Steve |