![]() ![]() Is so thin that there is no real shoulder to a brake to seat against. I looked for something that had threads for a muzzle brake and this does except they are 11/16-24 and the barrel I wanted a super light weight rifle for Elk and basically I bought the Patriot Synthetic in 338 Win Mag with the 24" threaded barrel. Ok - so I was pointed to a thread describing a way to do it, dry fit the pieces, roughed up everything and epoxied everything in place. That turned out to be a very tricky proposition, as there is just no meat in the rear to glue the pillar to, and to make matters worse you have to notch the rear of the rear pillar to get the trigger housing (which is hanging in space) to seat fully in the action. That was a very gracious thing to do, and I give them a lot of credit for helping me out. Another call to Mossberg - to their credit they sent me a new mag well insert and magazine. The rear action screw passes through this space and if you tighten the action screw a little too much, it cracks and distorts the magazine well and screws up magazine insertion/extraction (yeah - I did that). Problem 2: Turns out, there is about 1/2" of space between the top of the mag well insert and the action. I called Mossberg tech support - they told me it was normal and to shim the scope. I tried a different set of rings and another scope, all to no avail. Problem 1: With the scope zeroed at 100 yards, I only had about 6 clicks of elevation before I reached the scopes upper limit. Ugh.Ī couple of other problems reared their ugly head as well. The groups tightened up somewhat, but were still hovering at just under three inches. In addition, I filled in about four inches of the honeycomb fore-end, to try to stiffen up the flex. I mixed up some compound anyway, and bedded the recoil lug area as well as the first two inches of the barrel. There is a recoil lug insert between the barrel ring and the barrel, and it slides into a rectangular well in the stock. The magazine well is a cheap plastic insert, and the action rests on a plastic pier in the rear and another in the front. ![]() So, I took the rifle apart to see about bedding the action. No problem, I wanted a project, and I got one. Out of the box and brand new, the gun shot for crap. I wanted something inexpensive that I could tinker with, and boy did I get that - in spades. Just wanted to add to the database a bit, regarding my experience with a brand new Patriot in 6.5 Creedmoor that I bought myself for Christmas. ![]()
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