RTI .25 Mora and it’s first range trip

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jps2486 said:
Oh, please accept my apology. I looked at the OP's post and saw that the targets were shot at 100 yards. For some reason, I thought it was 50. My bad:confused:
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At 50Y it shoots one ragged hole. I am trying to tune this rifle for 100Y. I have not shot it for accuracy (score) yet, only groups for now, working on only a tune.
 
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I got the shroud end cap off today. Heated it with a heat gun, inserted two punches, in opposing holes and the cap unscrewed VERY hard. There was no LocTite on the threads.

While I had the barrel off, I pushed a pellet through it and found a tight spot where the rear shroud end was clamped to the barrel. I loosened the clamp bolts, pushed another pellet through and there was still a tight spot. I was able to polish the tight spot out. Then I torqued the clamp down to 10” pounds. Pushed another pellet through and it was nice and smooth.
 
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igolfat8 said:
I got the shroud end cap off today. Heated it with a heat gun, inserted two punches, in opposing holes and the cap unscrewed VERY hard. There was no LocTite on the threads.

While I had the barrel off, I pushed a pellet through it and found a tight spot where the rear shroud end was clamped to the barrel. I loosened the clamp bolts, pushed another pellet through and there was still a tight spot. I was able to polish the tight spot out. Then I torqued the clamp down to 10” pounds. Pushed another pellet through and it was nice and smooth.
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Glad you got it off. I need to try mine at some point.
 
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igolfat8 said:
I got the shroud end cap off today. Heated it with a heat gun, inserted two punches, in opposing holes and the cap unscrewed VERY hard. There was no LocTite on the threads.

While I had the barrel off, I pushed a pellet through it and found a tight spot where the rear shroud end was clamped to the barrel. I loosened the clamp bolts, pushed another pellet through and there was still a tight spot. I was able to polish the tight spot out. Then I torqued the clamp down to 10” pounds. Pushed another pellet through and it was nice and smooth.
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So the heat didn’t really do anything and the solution was more force? Or did the heat help anyway?
 
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igolfat8 said:
I do not think heat really helped although i was not able to get it to budge before without heat, so??? I had two punches, stuck in opposing holes in the end cap, then twisted as hard as I could and the cap finally began to move. It was EXTREMELY tight and I am not sure why it needed to be that tight?
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Ok, thanks! Will give it a try with a little more force then and put heat to it as well if that doesn’t work just for the psychological factor I guess :)
 
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