Key holes!!!! And maybe holes for scope bases are off!!

In my limited experiences with parker hale the scope bases were rong, but that usually runs you out of elevation.
 
guntech said:
Try a 50 grain bullet. If it stabilizes you are good to go as far as keyholing goes... I believe your 55 grain bullet needs more twist.

Then you will need to address the poor scope mounting problem.
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I agree with guntech, the 55 grain VMax might be too long to stabilise properly with a 1-14 twist.

I have a 22-250 made by Winchester, appx 30 years ago, and it will only stabilise "flat base" 50 grain bullets.

That being said, I also have a Remington 700 SA, 22-250 with a 1-14 twist rate that will consistently stabilise the 55 grain VMax, but just barely, drop the velocity a bit, and groups open up radically.

One other thing the OP may want to do is slug that bore to check its diameter.

.223 and 224 diameter bores in rifle barrels can be an issue.
 
The zee rings have eccentric plastic rings in them so they are adjustable for windage I believe . You can change or move the rings to adjust the scope up and down or left and right. Look them up to find the instructions, they are probably just out of adjustment.
 
Thanks for the info guys, I tried 50 gr jhp federal and no key holes!!!!!! It's 20 inches to the left with no room for adjustment.
 
Its supposed to do that, your point of impact will move to the right.
Markings on the turret are indicating where the bullet will go, not where your cross hairs appear to go.
Still sounds like you have a scope mount issue though.
6.5x55swm said:
I think scope is screwed, when I turn the windage knob to move the reticle to the right it goes left
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flyr said:
Its supposed to do that, your point of impact will move to the right.
Markings on the turret are indicating where the bullet will go, not where your cross hairs appear to go.
Still sounds like you have a scope mount issue though.
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My Burris does opposite
 
6.5x55swm said:
I think scope is screwed, when I turn the windage knob to move the reticle to the right it goes left
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The indications on a scope adjustment indicate the direction of the bullets moving on the target. Adjusting indicated left ... the bullets should move left... and correspondingly - right moves bullets right.

Start over... screw the adjustment to the right as far as it will go without forcing it... shoot a couple of shots on a new big target... you see those shots? Then screw the adjustments as far to the left as it will go without forcing it... shoot a couple of shots... they should be quite far left of the previous shots.

If so, your scope is adjusting properly.


Then you need to adjust the bases on the rifle so you can sight it it.
 
Every Parker Hale 1200 I've ever played with(so maybe 4 or 5;)) has had the scope base holes on the reciever bridge off-center. To the left, if I recall.
This caused the rear scope ring to lean far to the left, pointing the scope off to the right. This puts the POI so far left that even Burris Z-rings can't fix it.
My fix , which has worked well, is to shim the left edge of the rear base until I can get the scope to center up on a collimator. Usually 0.015" usually gets it close. Then I will bed the rear base to the bridge with black epoxy. Release agent on the reciever, rough up and degrease the bottom of the base. Make sure that the shim pack is slightly tucked under the edge of the base, and then smooth the epoxy over it as it cures. You can barely see this fix.
 

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When I had my shop, PHs were quite popular. I never observed one that had scope mounting issues as described.
Rebarreling them, I certainly noticed variation in the receiver threads.
 
tiriaq said:
When I had my shop, PHs were quite popular. I never observed one that had scope mounting issues as described.
Rebarreling them, I certainly noticed variation in the receiver threads.
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Yes, I've seen that in the lone rifle that I rebarreled. The reciever threads were aimed somewhere very different from all the other features of the reciever.
Maybe the few that I've worked on were from a bad run by Santa Barbara.
 
Jonnyofalltrades said:
Every Parker Hale 1200 I've ever played with(so maybe 4 or 5;)) has had the scope base holes on the reciever bridge off-center. To the left, if I recall.
This caused the rear scope ring to lean far to the left, pointing the scope off to the right. This puts the POI so far left that even Burris Z-rings can't fix it.
My fix , which has worked well, is to shim the left edge of the rear base until I can get the scope to center up on a collimator. Usually 0.015" usually gets it close. Then I will bed the rear base to the bridge with black epoxy. Release agent on the reciever, rough up and degrease the bottom of the base. Make sure that the shim pack is slightly tucked under the edge of the base, and then smooth the epoxy over it as it cures. You can barely see this fix.
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I have done the same with epoxy to correct off center drilling on many 98 style actions. It works well, hard to see the fix.
One new 30-06 Parker Hale I encountered in the early 80's had 35 thou excessive headspace. I don't know how that got out of the factory.
 
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6.5x55swm said:
I think scope is screwed, when I turn the windage knob to move the reticle to the right it goes left
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Sorry had the information reversed..

My mauser the holes drilled are off set. That I run luepold std turn in style rings. So I can adjust for windage. Or else i cannot zero..
 
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