Looking to replace my moose gun - ideas?

west250 said:
Thanks all, I think I will play around a bit more with it and consult a gunsmith. I have until next year to sort it out!
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That's a good place to start. I have three Husqvarnas and they all shoot well. If you don't reload, play around with and try a few different bullet weights, especially something a little heavier and probably the most popular heavier weight would be 180gr. Different rifles with different twist rates each have their 'preference' of bullet weight or one they'll shoot more accurately. If you still can't get the accuracy you want, have a gunsmith check it out.

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I would glass bed it and float the barrel (especially with a wood stock), trigger job and buy as many kind of 180gr load you can find and/or afford. Go to the range and try them all, one of them will give you the result you want. Like its been mentionned, the Huskys are nice classic rifles.
 
If I were in your shoes, I would take your rifle to a good gunsmith, ( Leeper, Sorensen, Kendal, Henrey) and have them bed the action and free float the barrel. Depending how it looks, have them recrown the barrel too. Once you have your rifle back, buy a couple different boxes of 165gr and a couple different boxes of 180 gr ammo.

I suspect that with an investment of $3-500 between gunsmith work and ammo, you will have a sub MOA shooter on your hands.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!!
 
All very good info - thanks writers!

I'll put a bit more time and effort into this gun before writing it off. If I could get a consistent 2 inch group at 100 I would be satisfied... Sounds like a bit of gunsmithing would help as well as some range time with different loads. Funny, but I have some handloaded 180's , but didn't want to waste them on paper!
 
west250 said:
All very good info - thanks writers!

I'll put a bit more time and effort into this gun before writing it off. If I could get a consistent 2 inch group at 100 I would be satisfied... Sounds like a bit of gunsmithing would help as well as some range time with different loads. Funny, but I have some handloaded 180's , but didn't want to waste them on paper!
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You don't know if you don't shoot them at paper! Handloaders tend to take a lot of pride in the quality of their ammo. So it would not surprise me at all, if hearing that his ammo shoots best in your rifle, that the whoever made it for you may well not mind making up a couple of more boxes for you.

My cousin (wife's cousin's husband, actually) makes much of my ammo (have been moving around a lot, if ever I get a permanent job somewhere, I'll be real anxious to get set up myself). For all I know he's may be getting fed up with me relying on him, but as a serious handloader, I think he quite enjoys the challenges. And actually it isn't necessarily a big big deal to make a box of 20, for someone who does it as a hobby, at least once a load is decided on. Including accuracy testing and a few range trips where sight-in shots my last box of .30-06 from him got me three animals (four if you count an end-of-day headshot on a grouse - it's accurate stuff).

RG

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Well I'd say more testing first. If it loves whatever 165s or 180s you can get consistently at crappy tire, you might be in business. But that said, your friends main motivation for handloading is probably that it is a hobby, and they might be proud to be able to help out.

RG

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pharaoh2 said:
No, your other option is to try a different flavour of cartridges. Just because it says premium on the box doesn't mean it'll shoot well in your rifle.
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+1.

1) If you haven't tried every brand of ammo available to you, you have no idea what your rifle will do. I have rifles that shoot 4" groups with one brand and sub-MOA with others.

2) Before flogging a nice rifle like your Husky, have it bedded and the barrel free floated.

Mark
 
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