- Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:14 pm
#32205
I was shooting the Savage FVSR with my typical CCI Blazer 40g HV rounds and noticed some strange bullet drop.
I had the rifle sighted in at 50' and had pinpoint accuracy. Moving outside to 100 yrds still kept a decent group, but seemed to have lots of flyers and I had to dial in a ton elevation to get to POA. I also could not get a decent 100yrd zero I keep having to playing with the adjustments.
It was when I moved out to 200yrds that the real odd-ness started. I was shooting at an 8" gong and to get anywhere near it I had to use ~7-10'(yes feet) of hold over Through my scope I could actually see the bullet lobbing out there like it completely lost velocity.
I didn't clean the rifle until tonight, at which time I found something that is the reason I'm writing this....Lots of lead shavings fell out of the compensator. Big chunks in semi-circular shape and they seemed to be falling off the main baffling. I'm going to take a wild guess that some of the bullets are hitting the baffling on the way out throwing accuracy off and as the fouling built up it keep changing the bullet behavior and killing velocity.
I did shoot a few rounds(maybe 10) with no comp, but I didn't realize there might be a problem so I did not "test it".
Thoughts? Does my guess sound right? Should I loose the comp? or Drill the main tube to widen?
I had the rifle sighted in at 50' and had pinpoint accuracy. Moving outside to 100 yrds still kept a decent group, but seemed to have lots of flyers and I had to dial in a ton elevation to get to POA. I also could not get a decent 100yrd zero I keep having to playing with the adjustments.
It was when I moved out to 200yrds that the real odd-ness started. I was shooting at an 8" gong and to get anywhere near it I had to use ~7-10'(yes feet) of hold over Through my scope I could actually see the bullet lobbing out there like it completely lost velocity.
I didn't clean the rifle until tonight, at which time I found something that is the reason I'm writing this....Lots of lead shavings fell out of the compensator. Big chunks in semi-circular shape and they seemed to be falling off the main baffling. I'm going to take a wild guess that some of the bullets are hitting the baffling on the way out throwing accuracy off and as the fouling built up it keep changing the bullet behavior and killing velocity.
I did shoot a few rounds(maybe 10) with no comp, but I didn't realize there might be a problem so I did not "test it".
Thoughts? Does my guess sound right? Should I loose the comp? or Drill the main tube to widen?
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