This weekend I was working on some 130 ttsx loads for my tikka 308 and my sons Rem 700 308. The tikka loves em, still working on a little hotter load but my sons Rem 700 ADL was all over the place. Its always a great shooter, but with his stock ammo he always uses, this thing was 2-3 moa. Ok somethings not right. I just bought him a Trijicon accupoint 2.5-10x56 and the first thing that came to mind was something was loose, or this new scope has some issues. Rings, rail, something. So went home and checked torque on all mounts with the wheeler fat wrench.
Then I thought of something, the action screws. Went to check them and they were about 25 in/lbs. Crap, Rem calls for 45 in/lbs on the synthetic stocks. Not sure how that got that way, maybe he pulled stock to do something and went back "snug". Re-torqued back to 45 in/lb and went to range yesterday. Dame near in the same hole. Shot those 130's about .5 moa at 100 yards.
Has anyone experienced that big of a shift simply by not having the action screws torqued correctly? It wasn't like it was strapped to a 2x4 flopping around. It felt very normal and no play.
