Hunt127588 - I am no fan of the .243 Winchester. Otherwise I would take you up on your offer. Just for grins ... how much? Your name sounded familiar, so I took the liberty of doing a search and found you posted several times concerning the CZ 550 of yours. It really looks as if you have scope problems, not a rifle problem. You began last February stating the barrel rubbed on side of the barrel channel, so you had a gunsmith glassbed the action, freefloat the barrel and adjust the trigger. After that you said it shot around 1 MOA. I take it from your posts that you shoot factory loads and there is nothing wrong with that at all. However, you did say after having it glassbedded, that it became your favorite rifle to shoot. I take it you were getting some decent groups at that time. Then in January this year you posted you were getting shotgun patterns with it, that you tried all different brands, that I took to mean ammunition and still, it shoots patterns. Posters were telling you to just try another scope, but I did not see where you said you did that. You said it was a new scope, but I did not see where you questioned the possibility that the scope may be bad. Posters also told you to make sure the rings were tight and you said that the rings were tight, that you lapped them. I have to go back to the scope. Burris usually puts out a good product, though I do have an issue with the company's customer service. No matter how good Burris is, it can produce a scope, that for some reason, just lets go (breaks internally). From the way you describe what happened to your groups in January, I really suspect you have an issue with the scope. Take it off of your CZ and mount it on one of your Remington's that you know is a good shooter with a certain load, and try it out. After sighting in and if your groups are good, then you can eliminate the scope as a problem and go back to the rifle. However, if your good shooting Remington suddenly starts to have traveling groups, then it is a problem with the new scope, not the new rifle. In addition, after reading your posts on the issue I don't think your problem is with the bolt hitting the inletted portion of the stock because you said that after the rifle was glassbedded that it shot better than before it was glassbedded. At the same time, it should be an easy fix. Just remove the bit of the wood where there is contact with the bolt handle and reseal the stock again. You might also check to make sure the barrel crown was not somehow damaged. It can happen and that too, could throw shots all over the place. Check the crown in good light with a magnifying glass to make sure there are no nicks or dents which could alter accuracy. In addition, to make sure your glassbedded CZ has proper wood-to-metal fit, take the barreled action out of the stock, then put it back in again, making sure that it sits right before tightening up the guard screws. When you have the barreled action sitting correctly in the stock then tighten the guard screws. I was told by a gunsmith who manufactures a very popular glassbedding compound about a proper glassbedding job. When it is glassbedded right, as you tighten the screws it will be easy at first and then you should feel some resistance before it cinches home. He said a correct bedding job will be such that you should not be able to turn the screw one full turn after feeling the resistance for the first time. My rifles cinch home between a quarter turn and a half turn. Any more than one full turn and you can actually bind the action in the stock, which throws off accuracy. I have probably confused the hell out of you and every one else by now. The point is, you said earlier your rifle was shooting better, then all of a sudden it began shooting 4-5 inch groups. It just sounds like the scope let go. I wish you luck with your CZ 550. Tom Purdom
