As the title says my Uragan hit the floor. Aiming at a ground squirrel, carefully focusing on the crosshairs, my dog took off while leashed to my right wrist.
He pulled me into a concrete post smashing my rifle and myself first into it and then on to the cement sidewalk.
While visibly unscarred (The rifle- I bruised up a bit), when I checked the zero it was shooting easily 4 ft above point of aim.
I presumed I had ruined the scope and wrapped up for the day. However over the past few days, experimenting with different scopes as well as the original scope, it appears something is bent within the rifle.
First off the velocity is the same as it's always been: 940 ft per second with the FX hybrids.
Secondarily every time I remount the shroud I get a different point of impact but all of them extremely high and oft times not able to be zeroed within the range of the vertical adjustments on the scope.
Last night I removed the barrel, rolled it along a flat surface and it is 100% true. I remounted the barrel carefully, put the gun back together and took it out early this morning while the winds were calm-ish.
The results were awful. All the shots were extremely high, no matter how I repositioned the shroud. I did take four shots without the shroud, using hearing protection of course. All the shots were true and below my point of aim. I have a picture of three of them almost in one hole. Examining the internal baffles, it looks like I'm getting some clipping. Previously, quite a few months ago, Derek Wall was kind enough to enlarge in some of those holes to preclude clipping that I might have been experiencing earlier. The day I dropped my rifle, I had just smoked 4 small ground squirrels in a row at 115- 119 yards. I missed a 5th and then took 3 more at the same distance. The gun was working well.
However it looks like I'm clipping again and I can only attribute it to the fall.
I hesitate to continue to bore out the baffles as eventually there will be nothing left. I checked the straightness of the baffles by putting it on a flat surface and then putting a level on each end and it appears to be 100% straight. Picture attached.
At this point I'm considering asking if I can purchase from AGT a new shroud and baffle, but am open to ideas?
He pulled me into a concrete post smashing my rifle and myself first into it and then on to the cement sidewalk.
While visibly unscarred (The rifle- I bruised up a bit), when I checked the zero it was shooting easily 4 ft above point of aim.
I presumed I had ruined the scope and wrapped up for the day. However over the past few days, experimenting with different scopes as well as the original scope, it appears something is bent within the rifle.
First off the velocity is the same as it's always been: 940 ft per second with the FX hybrids.
Secondarily every time I remount the shroud I get a different point of impact but all of them extremely high and oft times not able to be zeroed within the range of the vertical adjustments on the scope.
Last night I removed the barrel, rolled it along a flat surface and it is 100% true. I remounted the barrel carefully, put the gun back together and took it out early this morning while the winds were calm-ish.
The results were awful. All the shots were extremely high, no matter how I repositioned the shroud. I did take four shots without the shroud, using hearing protection of course. All the shots were true and below my point of aim. I have a picture of three of them almost in one hole. Examining the internal baffles, it looks like I'm getting some clipping. Previously, quite a few months ago, Derek Wall was kind enough to enlarge in some of those holes to preclude clipping that I might have been experiencing earlier. The day I dropped my rifle, I had just smoked 4 small ground squirrels in a row at 115- 119 yards. I missed a 5th and then took 3 more at the same distance. The gun was working well.
However it looks like I'm clipping again and I can only attribute it to the fall.
I hesitate to continue to bore out the baffles as eventually there will be nothing left. I checked the straightness of the baffles by putting it on a flat surface and then putting a level on each end and it appears to be 100% straight. Picture attached.
At this point I'm considering asking if I can purchase from AGT a new shroud and baffle, but am open to ideas?
