Another Montana thread, why not?

I recently received a second-hand Montana in, you guessed it, 308. All the trick moves have been applied with the exception of bedding.

I shot it for the first time this morning with a pet load. I have a tendency to put a bunch of shots in a group so that you can see what the heck is going on.

The lower group was the first, and with the action screws at 65 in/lbs. It immediately started walking horizontally, seven shots was enough.

My experience has been that bedding problems manifest themselves with more torque. I re-torqued to 45 in/lbs, flipped the target, and made a 4 click left adjustment.

10 shots were fired in rapid succession, no barrel cooling or any crap like that.

45 in/lbs produced an encouraging, more consistent group. I have hopes that a bedding job will settle it down even more.

Stay tuned!

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