At nearly $4/round, that was a very expensive lesson. I put another scope on top of the rifle and in 5 rounds the rifle was sighted in. In my thread about elk hunting, it was my scope, but it took me literally two or three hundred rounds of 300 WSM ammunition through the rifle before I accepted it truly wasn't me. If you can't figure it out after 5 or 6 different brands then 1) the rifle is inherently inaccurate, 2) your scope is busted or 3) you're not a good enough shot to determine 1) or 2). So, in summation, buy 5-6 different bullets and brands of ammo (5-10 total boxes) and shoot all of them until you figure out what your rifles likes best. I generally find something that works well in the rifle and just buy a shit load of it so I don't have to figure out what works again. Additionally, rifles can react to different bullets and brands of ammunition very differently. As accurate as hand loads? No, but they'll be plenty accurate for training and learning about your rifle. If you buy high quality factory ammunition, it should be accurate. 308 back in the day.now I might get.20, or like 5 rounds of the good stuff. That 30 dollars would have bought about 100 rounds of. 22 magnum gimmick gun that was selling for $1000 at times on Gunbroker, all because they don't tighten them down from the factory as a "courtesy" for those that want to "sight the pistol in for themselves".and I'm back to reality.īut kudos to the Olin corporation for honoring this old recall on a rifle that hasn't been in production since the year I was born. Then I remembered my phone call to Keltec where the guy actually sounded pissed off about sending me a replacement front site for their 30 round.
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I swear it sounded like a phone call from the 50s-60s, sweet and happy voice giving me hope that customer service at a major corporation is actually going to come through on something. "Yes sir, send us your firing pin and we will send you the replacement with a $30 check for your trouble".ĭid I just step into a time machine? Did I actually hear a nice lady tell me this about a 54 year old gun?
#Winchester 100 recall firing pin serial number
Knowing that my buddy's grandpa bought the gun new in 1962 and knowing that he never would have paid attention to such things.I called Winchester for a serial number check and my fears were realized: the recall had not been done.īullshit. I did more research on this gun, turns out there's a firing pin recall.