[6.5 shooter]

Originally Posted by drewski canuck

don't know your skill level, but if this is a first for a scoped big game caliber, then your second mistake was buying that cannon.

Alot of new shooters buy more gun than they need, and the recoil, the noise, the pain, all impacts on the accuracy of the shooter, not the gun.

Get yourself some good hearing protection and shooting glasses. Then get yourself a shoulder pad so you can take the repeated recoil.

Next, just go buy a plastic fold up table and a good quality fold up chair, and get some sand bags for rests for the fore end and the gun butt. The stability alone from sitting down and resting on sand bags will help your accuracy. Being able to take the repeated recoil will do the rest.

Now that you have eliminated the "shooter" from the equation, you will be ready to determine what is needed to make the gun accurate. As said above, a few rounds, stop, let cool, then another group, and you can gauge the adjustments needed to the scope.

noting is worse than developing a flinch when shooting, and it really affects the accuracy in a hunting situation when instincts suddenly take over.

Drewski

amen !!