Matt Travis
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- Sep 12, 2017
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I have a Remington 700 LSS in a 338 RUM with a 5-20 leupold VX-3. When I first got the gun set up and shot a box of factory fed ammo with 210 Nosler partitions I was super impressed with the accuracy of the gun. I was getting a nice tight clover leaf at 100 yards. I bought some 225 gr Nosler AccuBonds and worked up a load with reloaded 22 that was very impressive. The gun became my go too moose/bear gun. It shot so good I could pop the head off a bowling pin at 500 yards consistently. Then one rainy moose hunt I noticed the laminated stock warped and effected accuracy. Two weeks later after it dried, I took it back out to the range and it shot the tight little 3/8 in four shot groups so I decided to glass bed the stock and free float the barrel to eliminate the moisture warpage issue. I took my time and made sure everything was prepped and good to go glass bedded the action then I removed the pressure point in the barrel channel and resealed the wood. So now that everything fits tight and is completely free floated I go out to the range and my groups are the size of a stupid softball and all I can think of is my dad saying "If the damn thing ain't broke don't fix it!" So I did more reading and found ONE article out of dozens of others that recommend freefloating. In this article recommends that barrels with a #1&2 contour shouldn't be freefloated. ***!!! Could this be why my gun won't group now? Or do I need to rework up to a load that works better since the harmonics would have changed after I freefloated the barrel?Or could it be a torque issue with the action screws? I have always heard the first thing you should do was glass bed and freefloat but after the fact I read this about barrel contour now I feel like I just ruined my gun. Any advice? The pic I have attached is how it used to shoot. I didn't take pics of the softball sized group because I wasn't impressed.