Breaking in my barrel on my new gun. A Nightforce scope sits on top with the Sako 3 ring tactical mount. Shooting 180 gr reloads for the barrel break in procedure and so far best i get is 3" groups at 100yds, hopefully things get a lot better because this is by far the most expensive rig I've ever purchased. I was very carefull to mount scope properly and even used a small amount of blue loctite on the screws but something must be moving. The 3 ring mount is equipped with plastic or nylon inserts that go between scope and rings, this was purchased used but I don't see a problem with the scope shifting within them. All try some match handloads and see if things tighten up!! Your thoughts or coments would be appreciated.
Sako trg 22 accuracy issues
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Way too many variables to comment sensibly. Something is wrong. Have someone experienced take a look at it and shoot it at the range. I have a hard time believing a change in ammo would account for the problems, not unless its some ridiculous mismatch of ammunition and gun. The crappiest milsurp ammo should exceed that performance.
rnbra-shooter
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Reduce the variables. Try the Nightforce on another rifle that you know shoots well. Try your 180gr ammo in another rifle that you know shoots well. Or do it the other way - try a known-good scope on your TRG-22; try some known-good ammo; etc.
I would establish an accuracy benchmark using Federal GMM 168gr. factory loads.
If it won't group under an 1" with that load I would definitly start questioning other variables besides ammunition. I would be extremely surprised if there was something defective in your equip.
My TRG is less than .5 moa with that same ammunition.
Goodluck.
If it won't group under an 1" with that load I would definitly start questioning other variables besides ammunition. I would be extremely surprised if there was something defective in your equip.
My TRG is less than .5 moa with that same ammunition.
Goodluck.
GO buy some hornady tap 168 gr, or hornady match ammo 168gr, shoot a group, then try and get your reloads to shoot as tightly. I have been fighting with reloads in mine, and FINALLY after a lot of trying I landed a group that equals the tap which gave me groups that were 3.75mm from tip to tip. Its your reloads most likely, really. My reloads are almost 200fps slower than the hornady. I had 168gr shooting exactly the same velocity as the hornady's and the groups were almost 2 inches. The bullets are in the same brass, varget seated to the same depth, all appears to be equal. I even had a flyer that was almost 5 inches to the right, crazy, then shoot another group of hornady 1/4 moa, then reloads, then shotgun pattern, then hornady 1/4 moa. No cleaning no adjusting just shooting.
group in calipers is hornady factory, shot after the top group and 3 shot group to left, which were reloads within 5 fps of the hornady factory ammo. I have found my trg shoots factory junk ammo better than most reloads.
group in calipers is hornady factory, shot after the top group and 3 shot group to left, which were reloads within 5 fps of the hornady factory ammo. I have found my trg shoots factory junk ammo better than most reloads.
change the ammo vaget 45.5 gr 168 sierras or 155 sierras
I have two TRG 22's and both shoot sub-half MOA as do the TRG's owned by two friends of mine. The prefered diet of my 26" version is 175 SMK over 44.6 Varget while my 20" version has only yet shot 168 g pills ( I am out of 175g bullets ) - either Hornaday BTHP, A-Max or the old standby SMK's and so far has put five shots inside a dime sized circle at 100 with 43.5 and 44.0 grains of Varget.
These rifles are known for their accuracy and I've not heard of a bad one - establish a baseline with FGMM ( either 168g or 175 g ) and go from there.
These rifles are known for their accuracy and I've not heard of a bad one - establish a baseline with FGMM ( either 168g or 175 g ) and go from there.
In your experience, are they that fussy about ammunition that it would shoot at best, 3" groups at 100? I had a Tikka 308 and any load shot decently, 150's 180's, various powders, etc.
First i would us another scope ( one you know is good ) on it just to check, pretty sure the scope is at fault here, i own a couples of TRG and with cheap ammo they run one inch.... 3 inches something is shifting.. never saw a bad TRG... JP.
Not at all - for sure some ammo will shoot better than others, but other than offhand shooting a 3" group isn't possible with a TRG. I have had some loads ( Fed blue box or American Eagle just to get the brass ) shoot perhaps 1.3" or so but that would be the worst.
Ar180shooter
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Yah, 3" sounds excessively large for that rifle. Hell... My M70 shoots better than that with 150gr Federal blue box, and it hates that ammo.
If you are "breaking in" the barrel that is likely the problem. Just shoot the thing. Sako/Tikka make the most accurate factory barrels out there. The inside of them is pretty frightening-looking. Breaking in is of absolutely no proven benefit.
Pretty reasonable to pick up a box of match ammo, which is made with very seating depth tolerant bullets and shoot it.
Pretty reasonable to pick up a box of match ammo, which is made with very seating depth tolerant bullets and shoot it.
