horizontal stringing?

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mcshot

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Took my Rem 700 VLS to the range and fired a 10 shot group at 100 yards. All holes were touching except a called flyer but the holes were strung across the bull 1 1/4 inches. I can't recall what that means (shooter or gun) and can't find my book that addresses same. Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks,
Mac
 
If your scope is canted from shot to shot, the horizontal displacement at 100 yards will far exceed the elevation effects.

Statistically speaking, the vertical spreads *could* be randomly stacked closer together.
 
It could also be a case of the barrel touching the stock on one side or the other; as the barrel heats up and expands, it can be pushed away from the point of contact.
 
Unless you know for sure that the bullets struck further left or right in succession, it may not mean anything - just the randomness of target shooting. If you do know they were successively more off target, then it sure sounds like a heat induced thing to me - usually a bedding problem as SDC said.
 
Sounds like my .30/06 M70 when I dropped it into a "drop in" synthetic stock. Seems the recoil lug wasn't bearing perfectly with the mating surface in the stock, so with each shot, the barrel and action whipped sideways, giving me a group less than an inch high and a couple of inches wide.

I glass bedded the rifle and now it still shoots better than MOA, even though round count is 'way over 5000 . . . probably closer to 10k.
 
Thanks for info. I will pull the stock and make sure it is free floated all the way. I was pretty pleased overall considering I was using American Eagle vs premium or hand crafted stuff.
Thanks,
Mac
 
If I wuz a bettin' man, I'd bet that you're slightly canting the rifle. A smidgin left, a smidgin right, and you wind up with a nice vertical dimension, and a worse horizontal dispersion. (Not to say that bedding and such CAN'T be the answer.)

That's the reason for a flat fore end on target rifle stocks.

If you're shooting at one of these sight-in type targets with the 1" lines, try again and pay attention to the alignment of the crosshairs and the target's lines...

FWIW, Art
 
If memory serves me right at least if it is a shooters' mistake-Vertical is bad/different breathing technique or trigger jerk amongst other things. Horizontal can be from too tight a grip on the weapon (a firm handshake is best) or trigger jerk also. Also anticipating/flinching the shot can get you in trouble.
 
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