Cooper57m: I have several Remington 500 series rimfire Rifles (including two 541-T's!) and NONE of them exhibit this "eccentricity" that you describe.
I am going to pay more attention to your reported phenomenon - as I use them for small game and Varminting almost exclusively and once they are "sighted in" at the range and ammo decided on - they just get used on said game.
Approximately how "high and left" is the first round?
Thanks for any further info.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
It's been awhile since I shot it. I put a Lyman target receiver sight and a globe front sight on it for my son to use when he was is Boy Scout and bought a Cooper for myself. As I recall, that first shot is out about 1" to 2" at 50 yds. A local gunsmith was the one who told me that he had seen others that did the same thing. I was inquiring about what could be done to correct it and was told there is likely some stress in the barrel and that re-barreling was about the only sure fix for it. Since it was used for targets, and, a couple warm-up shots took care of it, I decided against re-barreling it.
