Rifle Shooting Extemely Far Right

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I took a brand new rifle (CZ 455) to the range yesterday and when through the same scope mounting process i've done on a dozen rifles. I took the bolt out and looked down at bore at a specific object and line the scope up to the same object. Through this process I can generally get on target and then fine tune from there. Not this time.

With this rifle I was shooting far to the right. So far that I ran out of windage with the bullet still hitting 6" right. If I look down the bore I'm way off from where the scope was.

I tried another scope and rings with the same result. Boresighted it and it confirmed how far offline it was.

What the heck is going on here?
 
loosen the 2 set screws holding the barrel to the receiver and wiggle the barrel free, then apply equal torque to the two screws and see if the barrel seats itself back in square on the receiver, there is a chance the barrel was installed out of square. They don't mount a scope to fire the test target, it's done in a rest at a fairly short distance so they likely never caught it before it was boxed up and sold
 
The barrel was loose when I got it. I had the barrel removed and torqued both screws to 32 inch pounds as I read somewhere online. This made no difference at all.

The barrel also looks to be centred in the barrel channel. This is why I'm so confused.
 
what are the action screws torqued to? back them off to just tight enough to hold the action in the stock, if it is rubbing in there at the barrel/action it could get worse as the bolts are tightened, seen a few with interference in the trigger area so I wouldn't rule out the breech end of the barrel may be making hard contact
 
You have the right bases for that CZ?
Heck, be a Redneck and put the windage turret at 12 o'clock
and lern tuh shewt low.

How about a photo or two to see wutt the buhjeezus is going on?
 
OK, you say the bbl was loose when you bought it? I take it this was a used rifle??

I had a very nice little bolt action 22 doing exactly the same thing. All looked well until I set it down on the kitchen table. Then I noticed it just didn't look straight. At first I thought it was just an optical illusion. Nope, when a straight edge was place up against the barrel there was definitely a slight bow in it. This may or may not help or even be your issue but something to look at.

Check the muzzle for a dent or burr. 22s seem to be far more sensitive to crown issues than center fires.
 
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