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I'm embarrassed and pissed off at myself.

In the last week, I've manged to pump about 500 rounds through my new Savage Mark II G and have been having an absolute blast doing it. Everything from the cans of homemade beer that had gone skunky to every can that my wife had used in the kitchen in the last week didn't stand a chance. Have been slowly moving distances out to 100 yards and I'm appreciating its accuracy.

The noob part:
All of a sudden, the rifle wouldn't hit the side of a barn yesterday. Odd. Bad ammo? WTF? Squeeze another shot off and noticed that the scope actually jerked. Oh S*$&T. The thumbscrews on the rings had worked loose. Game over for that, no proper rest with me and no real targets, so off to friends place later on today to sight it in again. Went to clean it last night and...crap! The stock mounting screws/bolts had come loose.

Lesson learned.
 
What kind of fool doesnt notice his rings sliding in the dovetails?? :D Exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks back on my Savage .22. Permatex threadlocker blue solved my problem. Welcome aboard.
 
saskgunowner101 said:
What kind of fool doesnt notice his rings sliding in the dovetails?? :D Exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks back on my Savage .22. Permatex threadlocker blue solved my problem. Welcome aboard.
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I still feel dumb and even dumber that other stuff like the stock was coming loose. I guess it's one of those noob things that's overlooked once and never done or at least spoken of, again.
 
Don't worry about it ;). I think its preatty safe to say that this has happened at least once to many of us. I haven't has the scope come that loose where it has slided, but I have had them where I shot the gun, and accuracy was preatty good but when I get home one of the screws is just on the verge of falling off. I have also have my front aperature on a peep sight fall right out when I was shooting. And I have had the screw on my Ruger 10/22 come very loose one time that holds the stock to the barreled action. Lock-tight (blue) worked well for most of these situations.
 
Thanks for sharing. I too have learned to check my mounts and rings regularly since a similar problem happened to me. My range bag now always has the basic tools needed to fix a problem in the field instead of going home. It is always good to share experiences both good and bad on this site. We can all benefit from each other.
 
Had the rear base on a Thompson R55 let go. Shaking the front mount, it was still solid.....I assumed it was too much caffine and went home. At home, I gave the rear mount a shake and......&^%$$! They were torqued to 40 in/lbs too. Every base screw get a drop of permex blue, or failing that, a drop of purple nail polish my wife gave me for my work bench/range bag. (don't ask) Its ah, vivid, but its its a good field expedient thread locker.
 
otter said:
I still feel dumb and even dumber that other stuff like the stock was coming loose. I guess it's one of those noob things that's overlooked once and never done or at least spoken of, again.
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I was shooting lousy with a 10/22 (no sourpuss comments, please!) until I realized that the screw affixing the barrel to the stock was loose...:redface:
 
When I went to the range to sight in my newly acquired Anschutz 1408 Match 54 I parked at the gate of the range. I didn't feel like wasting 10 minutes with the combination lock so I just walked the 100 or so yards in.

When I went to try out the gun I freaked when I noticed the rear peep sight assembly was missing! :eek:
I walked back to the car and there it was on the floor by the back seat. :redface:
 
This has never happened to me because I don't make noob mistakes....








NOT!!!!! LOLOLOL

As mentioned, once you get her sighted in again, use some thread lock goop from crap tire, and she won't go no where again! :D:D:D

Those cans won't stand a chance....:sniper:
 
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