Thread: Where to from here with my 7WSM?

As I've been reading through this, yeah been here several times for other people. You are at the point where I'd suggest cuddles and hugs, a nice hot drink and a sit down in the sun haha. Pricks of things, rifles that won't group.

List of possible culprits in no particular order:

Barrel issue, muzzle damage, chamber fault, leade fault, fouling, rifling damaged through bulge or something else.

Bedding issue, pinch, movement, contact point etc

Mechanical fault, lugs not bearing properly, mount screw tensioning the bolt, something not bearing evenly, trigger or sear, something not in line or on the piss.

Scope mounting security alignment and general faults.

General prick of a rifle that just doesn't like bullets...


What would I do? Get a factory load and try that then if that won't play start with a serious going over of the rifle looking at every possible issue and eliminating each as you go. If you can't find anything, try another complete scope and mount setup with the factory load (groups not point of impact accuracy so provided its on paper you're good four rounds fouler and three). Now I'd expect by this stage that a different scope would either show a massive change or no change at all, if no change find a lead sinker of about 75gms or so and securely tape it to the barrel about 100mm or so back from the muzzle and try again. This is farking with the barrel harmonics and it will most likely either get worse or better, if no change then don't bother going further. If worse, you are at least gaining understanding of the issue, it's a harmonics issue and the barrel whip is leaving the muzzle at a different position on bullet exit from the muzzle and you need to make a serious adjustment to your load either powder, bullet or something else major as one component is not suited. If better, well try 25mm forwards and backwards and see if you can get the thing to a place where you are happy.