Here's the story:
A friend of mine is looking at a virtually new Kimber 84 in .22-250 at the LGS. Local guy traded it in after finding it wouldn't group well (about 3 MOA at 100 yards) with the only load he tried. A few days ago my friend and some other boys slap an old junk scope on it, bore sight it and proceed to shoot a three shot group at 100 yards with it, one shot each. You can cover this group with a penny. This was with factory Hornady ammo, 55 grain V-Max.
Fast forward to yesterday. He decides he wants to shoot it again before purchase to make sure it's okay. After spending hours attempting to find rings to mount his big Zeiss glass to it, we have to settle on sitting a big Centerpoint I had laying around on it.
On the range it commenced to shooting the same type groups it did for the guy who bought it new; 3-4 inches and stringing bullets from left to right. It was a bit windy so I laid my XR-100 (also .22-250) on the bags and shot a group (Hornady factory ammo, 55 grain V-Max was the ammo in both rifles). It grouped slightly under an inch, so I feel confident that the wind was not the big issue. I wish I had shot the Kimber myself to be sure it was a component issue but we ran out of time and I didn't get to. My friend is at least as good a shot as me, and honestly probably a right smart better as I'm out of practice, but anyone can have an off day.
I know there are quite a few variables here and it could be a number of things, but the fact it started stringing with two different loads, two different shooters, and two different scopes is a bit worrisome to me. We're going to put the Zeiss on it Friday and shoot it again but even if it shoots well I'm gonna be wondering if the next time it's going to be all over the place. Any opinions either on the rifles in general or on what needs to be checked would be greatly appreciated.
A friend of mine is looking at a virtually new Kimber 84 in .22-250 at the LGS. Local guy traded it in after finding it wouldn't group well (about 3 MOA at 100 yards) with the only load he tried. A few days ago my friend and some other boys slap an old junk scope on it, bore sight it and proceed to shoot a three shot group at 100 yards with it, one shot each. You can cover this group with a penny. This was with factory Hornady ammo, 55 grain V-Max.
Fast forward to yesterday. He decides he wants to shoot it again before purchase to make sure it's okay. After spending hours attempting to find rings to mount his big Zeiss glass to it, we have to settle on sitting a big Centerpoint I had laying around on it.
On the range it commenced to shooting the same type groups it did for the guy who bought it new; 3-4 inches and stringing bullets from left to right. It was a bit windy so I laid my XR-100 (also .22-250) on the bags and shot a group (Hornady factory ammo, 55 grain V-Max was the ammo in both rifles). It grouped slightly under an inch, so I feel confident that the wind was not the big issue. I wish I had shot the Kimber myself to be sure it was a component issue but we ran out of time and I didn't get to. My friend is at least as good a shot as me, and honestly probably a right smart better as I'm out of practice, but anyone can have an off day.
I know there are quite a few variables here and it could be a number of things, but the fact it started stringing with two different loads, two different shooters, and two different scopes is a bit worrisome to me. We're going to put the Zeiss on it Friday and shoot it again but even if it shoots well I'm gonna be wondering if the next time it's going to be all over the place. Any opinions either on the rifles in general or on what needs to be checked would be greatly appreciated.