Thread: 1st shot flyers

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

My 85 gets cleaned after every outing fired or not (blued walnut) the point of this is to keep a $3000 rifle from rusting the bore.
The extent of this clean varies from one oil soaked patch to a full copper and carbon clean usually around the 50r mark.
I cant pick the first shot out of a 3 shot cold clean group with amaxes tho it would undoubtedly be slower.
Barnes it seems to chuck the first on a cold clean barrel about 1 inch high and half a inch left @ 100y. Not enough to concern me

My marlin XS7S may only be worth $1000 new but to me it is the only centerfire I have and I like to look after it and can not stand the idea of putting it in the cupboard knowing the barrel is dirty from being fired. I have never had a rifle throw its first shot on a cold clean barrel every other rifle I have had, have always been bang on right from first shot. Now that I have fully floated the barrel and bedded the recoil lug I am hoping to get some range time when my boy comes up from Blenheim so he can get some trigger time on the rimfire at the same time.

leave abit of kroil oil in it for that first shot?

Now that may just be the answer..... I haven't tested this enough yet but the results look good so far.

Big improvement shot stringing and 1st shot flyer gone, now to lighten up the trigger from its factory setting


on a warm barrel

Big improvement shot stringing and 1st shot flyer gone, now to lighten up the trigger from its factory setting

Tell us, how did you get the improvement?

I mentioned it in an earlier post. I removed the front pressure pads from the stock to make the barrel fully free floating I then sanded the left rail of the barrel channel where the barrel was making contact with the stock and I epoxy bedded the recoil lug area.