I just took a 700 Remington in .308 for its first range trip. UPS dropped it off a few days ago and I finally got it bedded and scoped. It has a #7 Douglas XX air gauged tube on it.
Murphy rode shotgun to the range and in my rush to get out of the house, I put the bolt stop in, but used a Shilen trigger that I had not installed the release on. Needless to say, I could not boresite my rifle and took a few rounds to get it on target at 100yds. The first group for my load of 44.0g R15 and 168g AMaxes hit was about .60" with 4 shots making one big hole. I got the one-hole-jitters and opened it up with the fourth shot.
The next two groups went downhill. I had about 20 rounds down the tube by the time I went to the second group and the copper fouling was putting me out of the target shooting business. Since I could not remove the bolt, not only could I not boresite my rifle, but I could not do a clean-and-shoot breakin.
Just thought I would put that out and see what your experiences were with Douglas barrels and fouling. As a note, I have a CM barrel of theirs that shoots like a house afire(.5moa with proper feeding), but I had a heck of a time breaking it in.
Be well,
David
Murphy rode shotgun to the range and in my rush to get out of the house, I put the bolt stop in, but used a Shilen trigger that I had not installed the release on. Needless to say, I could not boresite my rifle and took a few rounds to get it on target at 100yds. The first group for my load of 44.0g R15 and 168g AMaxes hit was about .60" with 4 shots making one big hole. I got the one-hole-jitters and opened it up with the fourth shot.
The next two groups went downhill. I had about 20 rounds down the tube by the time I went to the second group and the copper fouling was putting me out of the target shooting business. Since I could not remove the bolt, not only could I not boresite my rifle, but I could not do a clean-and-shoot breakin.
Just thought I would put that out and see what your experiences were with Douglas barrels and fouling. As a note, I have a CM barrel of theirs that shoots like a house afire(.5moa with proper feeding), but I had a heck of a time breaking it in.
Be well,
David