Voere
In the 1960s I was in partnership in a gun store. We got in this beautiful looking Voere 22. It sold immediatly and just as quick, it was back! The receiver where the bolt handle locks the action, was visibly wearing away! After less than two boxes of shells. We sent it back and lost interest in Voere rifles.
Regarding accuracy of new rifles out of the box, I tried many different makes. Many of them were not accurate off the shelf, with them walking the bullets as they warmed up, indicating a bedding job was required. The only make I found that was consistantly accurate was the Schultz and Larson Rifles. I tried quite a few in both 7 x 61 and 308 Norma magnum. Every one of them would group five shots in an inch at 100 yards, if I did my part. Even the Sako Finnbear 270 I took for myself, walked the bullets after about 4 or 5 shots. It took a while for me to get it carefully bedded, but after that, hot or cold, the bullets all went into the same group. By the way, when people talk of 3 shot groups, this is not a test of the rifle for grouping. In the accuracy crazed age of the late 1800s, the writers of the day said a group had to be nothing less than ten shots. Later, this evolved into 5 shot groups, but anything less can not be considered a group.
In the 1960s I was in partnership in a gun store. We got in this beautiful looking Voere 22. It sold immediatly and just as quick, it was back! The receiver where the bolt handle locks the action, was visibly wearing away! After less than two boxes of shells. We sent it back and lost interest in Voere rifles.
Regarding accuracy of new rifles out of the box, I tried many different makes. Many of them were not accurate off the shelf, with them walking the bullets as they warmed up, indicating a bedding job was required. The only make I found that was consistantly accurate was the Schultz and Larson Rifles. I tried quite a few in both 7 x 61 and 308 Norma magnum. Every one of them would group five shots in an inch at 100 yards, if I did my part. Even the Sako Finnbear 270 I took for myself, walked the bullets after about 4 or 5 shots. It took a while for me to get it carefully bedded, but after that, hot or cold, the bullets all went into the same group. By the way, when people talk of 3 shot groups, this is not a test of the rifle for grouping. In the accuracy crazed age of the late 1800s, the writers of the day said a group had to be nothing less than ten shots. Later, this evolved into 5 shot groups, but anything less can not be considered a group.
