[fgr39]

I was shooting my 981T today and everytime I would reload the first shot would be off by about 3/4 to 1 inch. all the rest of the rounds would group into a nice little cluster at the point of aim. It did this with two types of ammo (all I had with me). I was shooting from a bench with bags. It is scoped with a Sightron S2 4.5-14x 42mm w/ millet rings. This was at an indoor range so wind was not a factor. I tried tightening and loosening the action screws with no effect. Any one got an idea on this? Is there a way to bed a tube fed synthetic stocked rifle?

[rugerdude]

It might be heat (lack of). My marlin 925 would throw the last 2 shots of a 5 shot group away from the main cluster consistently. I fixed it by waiting longer between shots, but not too long*.

*If you wait too long after firing, your barrel will cool down and will fire slightly differently than if it were warm. I always start my range session by shooting 10 rounds very quickly through my marlin 925 to get the barrel up to it's normal shooting heat, where it groups consistently. If I fire too fast, it gets off, but if I fire slowly it seems to be okay.

How long do you wait between groups, it seems to me with the info given and my hypothesis that it must be a long time.

[rangerruck]

two probs here, one is to check the float of the bbl before and after that first shot. secondly, if you notice, sometimes on this rifle, when you pull the trigger, you will see the action ' sit down' , inside the stock, and then not do this, until you reload, and everything ' unsettles itself' back to its relaxed config.