After looking over my 338 I noticed the scope was twisted off center, so I pulled it apart and remounted it with loctite on all the screws. (New scope this year).
And back to the range. Shot a 1.25" 5 shot group at 100, adjusted sight a tad and moved to 525. Shot a group of three, went and checked. 8.5". Not awesome, but dead animals. Tweaked scope a tad, back to bench. Barrel was pretty damn hot, another 3 [bleep] group, went and checked.. 13". What the crap?
Decided to let barrel cool down in the ac in the truck. Gave that a bit and set up at 200, perfect 3 shot 2" clover in the bullseye.
A side note, between the first 5 shots and the second 6 shots, mv jumped 100 fps and one crazy shot was 200 fps over the high average!!!!! Ammo was kept in the shade. Barrel was hot. Chrono is a caldwell in the sun.
Powder was rl 22
Ideas???
