Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting bad experience with my .260 rem.

So...A little update. Went to take the scope off to put on a new Leupold and heavens to betsy, I could turn the scope easily by hand and the mounts were even loose. FML. THIS is why you never trust a factory mount job.

Heavens to betsy!!

thank goodness you didn't wait a whole year to look at it.

Been there.
Several years ago, I took a bad fall on loose shale and really dinged up my scope. I shot it several times and it seemed fine. But then, I shot an elk from about 150 yds. I hit way to the left and spined it. I got within 10 yds for a kill shot but I could just barely fit a bullet through the brush to her neck. It took me 4 shots to hit it in the neck, and that was from a solid rest.

Back to the range. I could put 3 or 4 inside an inch but then it would jump 4" to one side or the other. I screwed with it a long time then replaced the scope. Same thing. It took me a long time to figure that one out.

The rifle has Leupold bases & rings - the type with a dovetail on both sides of the rear ring and a cupped screw on each side to adjust windage. When I fell, part of the dovetail on the ring sheared off. I couldn't move it by hand so I couldn't feel movement but the recoil of the 300 WSM sure could shift it. It would shoot great for several rounds, then move a little. I replaced the rings and voila', it was back to a MOA rifle. I probably fired 100 rounds from the bench before I solved that one.

What's wrong with that? I look at my rifle every year, usually when I go to Cabela's to buy my box of ammo. for that year.

Sounds like Lonny made the call.

If you were any kind of rifleman, a box would last you more than a year.

I bought a box 19 years ago... Need to start looking for a replacement..

Makes a lot of sense as to why I resighted it at elk camp and had to make some pretty significant adjustments at 100 yards. Then riding the 4 wheeler/hiking probably boogered it all up again. I love the rifle though. The .260 is very enjoyable to shoot, low recoil, NORMALLY goes where you want it (unless your scope is looser than a Vegas stripper.)

4 wheeler..

Where do you hunt again?

Holyt K-riste in a handbasket! You can sight in a rifle and not notice the scope mounts AND the scope is loose????

I had to read the entire thread twice before I believed this.

Careful what you say on this forum.

As for the 4 Wheeler comment, no I don't hunt from a 4 Wheeler. I ride to the end of the road and then walk in another 5 miles. 2. The scope was just tight enough to make a nice group from the bench. 3. Some people are a little too presumptuous.

god I hope it's not montana..

Please tell me you're from texass and hunt in colorado.. please, please, please..

When you guys buy a computer, a truck, or an ATV, do you go over every bolt to make sure it's torqued right? When you buy something, you expect it to be assembled right. Most of the package guns are done well and bore sighted. He appears to have got the exception.

C'mon, apples and oranges.. Anyways, he experienced a malfunction, and didn't check what anyone would have checked. On a rifle or a truck..

Damn, I read 8 pages of BS and the OP waits two months to finally decide to do what he should have done after the first miss and that was to thoroughly check the scope, rings, and bases! He's a MatchoKing alright, LOL, and I hope he doesn't hunt in Wyoming!

I think the only malfunction is people taking him seriously.