So, this is my first time in this situation and I don't really know what to do.
I have been very lucky I guess. Howas, tikkas, ruger; I have over the years had some really great inexpensive rifles that shot amazingly well.
2 years ago, my mom wanted to buy me a gun. She's a cool mom. It was admist shitty covid supply lines.
I gave some input but in the end she bought me a Sabatti Rover Tactical in 300WM.
We have a 500y range on the farm and 1000m like 5 mins drive away and theres endless open land just a bit further so I thought this would be a lot of fun. My goal was to set it up to shoot a mile.
The rifle shot terrible, whatever bullets, powders, ammo I tried, it didn't matter, it just shot terrible like 4MOA + terrible.
The stock it came was complete junk, so soft. So that was first to go. Custom McMillan A5, beddings, pillars, 3 gunsmiths, too many wasted components and even some broken rifling just inside the crown later, I think I've given up. I don't want to rebarrel it, it just feels like more waste at this point.
It was a gift for my mom so i wanted if to work, but I have spent much more than the $1000 she got the gun for on trying to get it to shoot.
It has a warranty, but that's effectively meaningless. I have done too much stuff to the gun so doubtless I'll be blamed and sending a gun to Italy and back, with export permits and such will take ages.
So after the long preamble, what do I do now? Feels wrong to sell it, and I don't think I'll get much for it. Or literally just drop it in the trash and move on. Leave it in the safe till it becomes my son's problem?
I have been very lucky I guess. Howas, tikkas, ruger; I have over the years had some really great inexpensive rifles that shot amazingly well.
2 years ago, my mom wanted to buy me a gun. She's a cool mom. It was admist shitty covid supply lines.
I gave some input but in the end she bought me a Sabatti Rover Tactical in 300WM.
We have a 500y range on the farm and 1000m like 5 mins drive away and theres endless open land just a bit further so I thought this would be a lot of fun. My goal was to set it up to shoot a mile.
The rifle shot terrible, whatever bullets, powders, ammo I tried, it didn't matter, it just shot terrible like 4MOA + terrible.
The stock it came was complete junk, so soft. So that was first to go. Custom McMillan A5, beddings, pillars, 3 gunsmiths, too many wasted components and even some broken rifling just inside the crown later, I think I've given up. I don't want to rebarrel it, it just feels like more waste at this point.
It was a gift for my mom so i wanted if to work, but I have spent much more than the $1000 she got the gun for on trying to get it to shoot.
It has a warranty, but that's effectively meaningless. I have done too much stuff to the gun so doubtless I'll be blamed and sending a gun to Italy and back, with export permits and such will take ages.
So after the long preamble, what do I do now? Feels wrong to sell it, and I don't think I'll get much for it. Or literally just drop it in the trash and move on. Leave it in the safe till it becomes my son's problem?