Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Rifles that just won't shoot?

My Christmas present in 1981 was a 788 rifle from Dad, chambered in .243 Win. It was a 2-4 MOA proposition in my preteen hands, but it did account for an enormous whitetail buck.

25 years later, after a long lapse in shooting/hunting, I pulled it back out of the cabinet, and even with a marked improvement in my shooting skills, it was still a 2-4 MOA rifle, regardless of bullet brand, weight or type, powder, primer� anything.

Discarding my first rifle was out of the question, so I consulted Mickey Coleman. He prognosticated it had a bad barrel, and made me an offer I couldn't refuse to rebarrel it in 7mm-08. Now it shoots like this:







And I am happy.



So happy, I sent the stock to Karnis to get some love. So I've now put several times the original purchase price into making it shoot well and feel good in my hands.







And it will have even more stories behind it when I pass it along to my yout's. But for the sentimental attachment, it would have been long gone.

FC