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Before ordering a new screw, can you try adding a washer as a spacer? Filing the original screw is easy and takes maybe 5 minutes. Or use a Dremel w/cutoff wheel and finish it off with a file......even faster.
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Montana 257 bought second-hand with NO tweaking. That's about .2" group. I have got to be the luckiest SOB on the planet. I still have this one! ![[Linked Image]](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/P10102002.JPG)
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Show me a $1,200 custom.... I do know $1,200 will get you a rifle that shoots better than the targets from the post #1, above. The Weatherby Vanguard S2 guarantees SUB-MOA out of the box. That means .99" at 100 yds. Mine in 25-06 does that very well. For under $500. It seems the Kimber here does not do that. That is why he should send it back. That ain't custom and MOA ain't 1" at 100 yards.
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Before ordering a new screw, can you try adding a washer as a spacer? Filing the original screw is easy and takes maybe 5 minutes. Or use a Dremel w/cutoff wheel and finish it off with a file......even faster. Then he can't send it back.
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Before ordering a new screw, can you try adding a washer as a spacer? Filing the original screw is easy and takes maybe 5 minutes. Or use a Dremel w/cutoff wheel and finish it off with a file......even faster. Then he can't send it back. You mean to tell me you can't buy a replacement front action screw from Kimber? ETA: Per the 84M manual, a new front action screw could be ordered.
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Has the OP confirmed that the screw is too long and bottoming out?
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257:
Go back to post #1, look at the targets.
All of us like to have our rifles shoot with accuracy.
You are right, there is a rotten apple in this one. In this
case it seems to be a Kimber. The expectations are set higher
with rifles in this range.
That is why I have recommended him to send it back.
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Montana 257 bought second-hand with NO tweaking. That's about .2" group. I have got to be the luckiest SOB on the planet. I still have this one! Wanna sell it??? Lol
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Montana 257 bought second-hand with NO tweaking. That's about .2" group. I have got to be the luckiest SOB on the planet. I still have this one! Wanna sell it??? Lol Well.....according to farmboy, it's worth $1200!!! errrrr......I mean "well over $1200"!!!!
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Show me a $1,200 custom.... Nosler 48 Patriot 7mm08. Mine is a tack-driving son of a gun.
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Nosler Patriot 6.5x284, mines a nail driver.
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Custom means you pick the stock, barrel/contour/length, action, caliber, trigger, yada, yada.
Like ordering a pizza....
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Show me a $1,200 custom.... Nosler 48 Patriot 7mm08. Mine is a tack-driving son of a gun. What does it weigh?
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6.75 lbs without rings and scope. It wears a 3.5-10x40 VX3, Leupy dd bases, and burris signature rings.
I personally do not have the patience to fart around with anything Kimber, and out of the 100+ hunters that have showed up in our camps, I've never seen one Kimber. Right or wrong, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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Why take a Kimber to TX? Kimners are mountain rifles, not sit-at-the-feeder rifles.
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Why take a Kimber to TX? Kimners are mountain rifles, not sit-at-the-feeder rifles. Awwww. That ruined my Christmas. I won't be able to sleep tonight....maybe for a week. Merry Christmas! and GFY!!
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Why take a Kimber to TX? Kimners are mountain rifles, not sit-at-the-feeder rifles. Not sure if you're trying to be funny, just a smartazzz, or plain ignorant? For the record, our hunts are free range W TX aoudad, mule deer, antelope in NM, and "no high fence or feeders" whitetails.
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Why take a Kimber to TX? Kimners are mountain rifles, not sit-at-the-feeder rifles. Awwww. That ruined my Christmas. I won't be able to sleep tonight....maybe for a week. Merry Christmas! and GFY!!  Some fellers never hunted Texas... Here's a sweater I'm wearing tonight. Fa la la la LA! ![[Linked Image]](http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/BeNBadRacing/ugly-sweater_FUG-390x600_zps1cab1c56.jpg)
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I'll take a tikka t3 over a kimber anyday.
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