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After three trips back, the 'smith finally told me to pound sand. The rifle is now at the barrel maker's, they wanted to give it a whirl. I think this gun has broken me of the desire to ever build another gun. It has been almost a year of this B.S. Gun shot great before rebarrel, now it doesn't.

What's been tried:

1. Five scopes
2. Bedded three times
3. Two different recoil lugs
4. Several different bullets
5. Three+ ring/base combos
6. Ammo from three different hand loaders
7. Recrowned.
8. Three different shooters.

(Action was trued by a very reputable smith during the original build.)

I was going to take a pipe wrench to it, but the barrel maker really wanted to try it first.

I'm not even blaming the barrel maker, but barrel and stock are the only things left I believe. This really has been an enigma. Not to mention a year long headache...

Shot like this before the new tube.



Rebarreled by a different smith and now shoots like this:







The second smith implied I am not a capable shooter. Here is how I shoot my factory Tikka: