riddleofsteel
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With rifle season for deer either started or upon us in many states I started thinking of my favorite deer rifle. The long hours we have spent together on deer stands and at the range, the freezers we have filled with meat all make for sweet memories. There is a fine line between what is me and what is mine. A deer rifle epitomizes that concept. You care for them, keep them from theft and harm, learn thier quirks and whims, and spend endless, quiet wilderness hours with them. They are at once a work of art in wood, plastic and steel and an exercise in deadly technology. I thought I would start off with my favorite.
This 25-06 Remington Sendero is one of the first run Remington made up. I set it up with Leupold mounts and a 3.5 X 10 50MM Leupold Vari X III. The Harris bipod spends more time in my shooting pack than on the rifle but it comes in handy as it will extend far enough to allow shooting from a seated posistion. This rifle nearly drove me crazy until I found out how sensitive the H&S Precision stocks are to bedding screw torque pressures. It was shooting 1.5 to 2" groups out of the box until I discovered the front bedding screw was set at 12 inch/lbs and the rear screw was set at 20 inch/lbs from the factory. I removed the barrel/action from the stock, cleaned off the bedding block, waxed the recoil lug and put a little Accuglass in the recoil lug cutout in the stock. Then I reassembled the rifle and set the bedding screws to 65 inch/lbs and let it dry. When I cleaned everything up and reassembled the rifle it was shooting .25 MOA groups. I still have this target of a 10 shot group at 100 yards. The group barely visible under the tape is a 2 inch group, the last group fired before bedding screw adjustment.
The next before morning before the air began to heat up and with zero wind I fired four shots at 500 yards that cut a group that measured 1.5"
Since then I have killed dozens of deer from 25 yards to 385 yards with one shot kills. The excellent Hornady 117 grain SPBT kills like the Hammer of Thor.
As a matter of fact that is what a somewhat poetic friend of mine calls this rifle.
Mjollnir (Thor's Hammer)
This 25-06 Remington Sendero is one of the first run Remington made up. I set it up with Leupold mounts and a 3.5 X 10 50MM Leupold Vari X III. The Harris bipod spends more time in my shooting pack than on the rifle but it comes in handy as it will extend far enough to allow shooting from a seated posistion. This rifle nearly drove me crazy until I found out how sensitive the H&S Precision stocks are to bedding screw torque pressures. It was shooting 1.5 to 2" groups out of the box until I discovered the front bedding screw was set at 12 inch/lbs and the rear screw was set at 20 inch/lbs from the factory. I removed the barrel/action from the stock, cleaned off the bedding block, waxed the recoil lug and put a little Accuglass in the recoil lug cutout in the stock. Then I reassembled the rifle and set the bedding screws to 65 inch/lbs and let it dry. When I cleaned everything up and reassembled the rifle it was shooting .25 MOA groups. I still have this target of a 10 shot group at 100 yards. The group barely visible under the tape is a 2 inch group, the last group fired before bedding screw adjustment.
The next before morning before the air began to heat up and with zero wind I fired four shots at 500 yards that cut a group that measured 1.5"
Since then I have killed dozens of deer from 25 yards to 385 yards with one shot kills. The excellent Hornady 117 grain SPBT kills like the Hammer of Thor.
As a matter of fact that is what a somewhat poetic friend of mine calls this rifle.
Mjollnir (Thor's Hammer)
