Yes, it is a problem, which is my motivation to speak up. Thank you and God bless.

Yessir. I see the great work that you do and others do too. Take care and God bless you!

I'd like to hear from an Engineer why blueprinting is laughable.

Gun manufacturers make very fine guns that are capable of extremely fine accuracy, and have been doing so long before my father was born, which was back in the 20's. Many are capable of this sort of accuracy now, out of the box with good quality ammo. The increases in accuracy potential is largely improved bedding, and vastly improved factory ammunition and bullet quality that has always been available to people like me who could bed a rifle and develop their own ammo. My late friend had a standard sporter Husqvarna rifle in .270 Winchester that was shooting sub-1/2" inch groups with the earliest Nosler and Sierra bullets with his handloads in the early 50s, and he showed me the groups that he had saved over the years. I watched him shoot those groups regularly with that old moose rifle of his in the 70's, after it had been used on many Canada trips and the gun was worn from shooting and handling. He told me that when he was a kid, his friend and shooting mentor, the great Ned Roberts of Goffstown, NH (designer of the .257 Roberts), was shooting that accuracy and better, twenty years earlier, and he could do it with black powder cartridges, too. Accuracy is certainly more available to the ordinary person, and more common because more folks are demanding it, but it's not new, by any means. Husqvarna has not made rifles since about the late 70s, when they went into the chainsaw business.

I appreciate your comments. Thank you.

Speaking of fixing what isn't broken you should watch his bedding/free floating videos where he "undoes" factory bedding done perfectly exactly like its done on other Tikkas and Howas and Browning A-Bolts/X-Bolts and lots of other "premium" rifles that have been factory-bedded and perfectly with maybe a few teaspoons of bedding compound instead of the cups "gunsmiths" like him use. If selling a customer a "bedding" AND "free-floating" JOBS PERIOD AS TWO SEPARATE "PROCESSES" WHEN EVERY GOOD GUNSMITH ON THE PLANET WOULD NEVER DO ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER AND CAN'T DO ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER AND WHO KNOWS THAT THE BARREL "FREE FLOATS" BECAUSE THE FUCKING "STOCK" IS BEDDED ISN'T "SNAKE OIL" THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS. BUT THEN AGAIN ITS NOT LIKE ANYBODY IS STANDING IN LINE FOR THIS '"EXPERT" TO WORK ON THEIR GUNS OR HE WOULDN'T HAVE THE TIME TO "TEACH" PEOPLE IN HIS MAKE-WORK KZfaq VIDEOS IN HIS EMPTY "GUNSMITH" SHOP AND WOULD HAVE WORK LINED UP FOR MONTHS TO COME. SO HES REALLY ONLY "SCREWING" HIMSELF AND HE KNOWS IT AND HE'S MAKING THESE "EDUCATIONAL" VIDE0S TO MAKE HIMSELF FEEL BETTER ABOUT BEING A FRAUD. OR A FOOL WHICHEVER HE IS.

Does this also apply for older surplus guns that have been sportised like a mosin? Specifically the blue printing.

@@deeremeyer1749 seek help sir...and do it someplace else. You are offensive.

@@gilream Amen. Sounds like a "blueprinter" or a victim of it.

The author needs to find an honest job. Rifles don't have erratic accuracy. They are either accurate or they are not, and there are a host of possible reasons, as I discussed, from bedding, to barrel contact, to ammo, but blueprinting has nothing to do with any of it. Please watch my latest video where I shoot my factory stock out-of-box Winchester Model 70 .257 Roberts. Not blueprinted.

I have no information on that particular rifle.

So, my question is, what is the logic of purchasing an inexpensive gun that's made to substandard methods, just to turn around and pay big bucks for it to be corrected? I don't judge a rifle by the bright marks on a bolt; only by the holes in the paper.

@@GunBlue490 I have had personal experience with this and worked many years with a gunsmith that says yes there are manufacturing problems and he does do stuff to fix them. I agree with you totally about the holes in the paper. I am getting to where not just my paper but love to see others like you shooting too. One of the things was when you showed how nice the accuracy you were getting with a light weight rifle was. Great point!!!

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Yes, I did an entire reloading series, available on this channel.

Yes, but the most important thing to remember is that an inaccurate gun makes every shooter more inaccurate. If a shot is 2 inches wide because of shooter error, it doesn't help if the gun adds 2 inches more. Accuracy helps the average shooter as much as the medal winner. "Only accurate rifles are interesting" - Col. Townsend Whelen.

Scott, please allow me to pass along a tip from a friend who is a master reloader, an expert in making match-grade ammunition and in other aspects of that arcane art. Talking with him a few years ago, we began discussing my testing protocol for profile (test) loads, which I was shooting by hand, from a bench, using a solid well-supported position. Since I have developed many sub-moa hand-loads, I thought I was OK, but he shook his head and said that wasn't enough - that I needed to used a gun vise or lead-sled to eliminate the human element in terms of the testing to the degree possible, i.e., subtle shifts in position from shot-to-shot which throw off the data. Using a mechanical device to anchor your rifle for test shots is particularly important when testing those high-power magnum loads which have substantial recoil. That was his advice, since even large and strong men can be moved or caused to flinch by such powerful cartridges. Reading about your 7mm magnum, I can't help but wonder if a lead-sled would help you. Another piece of advice is that in the case of magnum or other cartridges shooting a heavy, long-range bullet at high MV for distance - may not settle down gyroscopically ("go to sleep") until a significant distance down range. In other words, it is possible for a given load to be inaccurate at one distance, but extremely accurate at another, due to taking time to settle itself down gyroscopically.

Yes they are, but why would you need one? Most factory triggers are quite nice and easy to adjust down to 2.5 to 3 pounds without spending any money. In all the many rifles I've owned in over 55 years, except for the AR rifles, I never had a single one that wasn't a very crisp 3 pounds or less after a simple screw adjustment. Some required a very inexpensive, lighter spring to reduce weight, that's all.