Unable to zero after chassis upgrade.

[Dep]

Good day everyone. Looking for help here. I have a Savage 110 Tactical with a Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25x56. I was hitting 1 moa groups and decided to replace the stock with an Oryx Chassis.
Went to the range today for the first time after the upgrade, and now with the scope dialed down to the mechanical limit, it is hitting 3 feet or so high.
Action screws, scope bases, scope rings tightened to spec.
I was expecting some poi shift, but not to the point that I can't zero the rifle.
Where is the best place to start? Putting the scope on a different rifle and try to zero, put the rifle back in the stock and try to zero. What are your suggestions to get this rifle running again?

Thank you.
Dep

 

[std7mag]

Put back to the way it was and see where it's hitting.

Just curious,
What value did you torque the action screws when you put the chassis on?

 

[Dep]

60 inch pounds. (As stated in the Oryx installation manual)

Thank you.

 

[joshb]

Are you sure you dialed it the right direction? I had that brain fart, one day.

 

[Straightshooter1]

Good day everyone. Looking for help here. I have a Savage 110 Tactical with a Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25x56. I was hitting 1 moa groups and decided to replace the stock with an Oryx Chassis.
Went to the range today for the first time after the upgrade, and now with the scope dialed down to the mechanical limit, it is hitting 3 feet or so high.
Action screws, scope bases, scope rings tightened to spec.
I was expecting some poi shift, but not to the point that I can't zero the rifle.
Where is the best place to start? Putting the scope on a different rifle and try to zero, put the rifle back in the stock and try to zero. What are your suggestions to get this rifle running again?

Thank you.
Dep

You might want to double check the scope base to see if it's the same MOA base. I had a similar issue where I assume the base was a 20 MOA base like my old one when the new one was actually a 30 MOA base.

 

[jelenko]

3ft ~ 36 MOA. That's a lot for a scope that is bottomed out. Assuming it's bottomed out not topped out, I'd call the manufacturer; doesn't seem right.

 

[ballisticdaddy]

I would double check the length of the action screws in the new chassis and ensure there is no interference

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Try boresighting To help you see what is wrong... Put your target at 50 yds and take the bolt out. Look through the bore and set the rifle on target using your bags or rest. Only after doing that look through the scope and, without moving the rifle, carefully dial the crosshairs back to the target. I’m not familiar with that scope but if it has a zero stop, you may have to adjust that.

 

[Rob01]

Did you take the zero stop out? If you are bottoming out the Strike Eagle then something is wrong as it has a lot of elevation.

 

[Dep]

Are you sure you dialed it the right direction? I had that brain fart, one day.

Yes, I thought of that and dialed up, and it did just that, moved the poi higher.

Thank you,
Dep

 

[Bill Norris]

Sounds like an awful lot of difference just swapping from a stock to a chassis.

 

[std7mag]

60 inch pounds. (As stated in the Oryx installation manual)

Thank you.

Try loosening them.
Had major issues getting a Choate to shoot right.
When i backed off the torque to 30 inlb shot much better.

 

[Rob01]

I would also check to make sure there is nothing in the barrel channel which it touching or pushing the barrel. I have moved barreled actions around a lot to different stocks and chassis and never was off more than a couple tenths of a mil. 3 feet is saying something is wrong.

 

[shooter65]

Recoil lug too long, action not flush in chassis with barrel pointing slightly upward?

 

[shooter65]

Does barreled action rock front to back in the chassis?

 

[Dave Zander]

So you took the barreled action out of the stock and transferred it to the other stock while never removing the scope/base rings etc and it was sighted in with the original stock Correct?
if thats the case it doesn't make sense to me. I agree put it back in the original stock see where it shoots.
Maybe the scope got bumped or something is loose inside the scope. Maybe there isn't enough clearance in the barrel channel and you're bending the barrel up slightly when you tighten the action screws.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Recoil lug too long, action not flush in chassis with barrel pointing slightly upward?

This could happen and it would be a bad thing but the scope should be mounted to the action, not to the the chassis, so I don’t think it would stop you from zeroing. I could be wrong. Maybe if it caused some bend in the barrel like @Dave Zander said.

 

[Dave Zander]

If I did the math right 3 feet over 100 yards the barrel would have to be bent up quite a bit.
Assuming you where shooting 100 yards.

 

[Rob01]

Is “quite a bit” one of those serious mathematical terms? Lol

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Is “quite a bit” one of those serious mathematical terms? Lol

It’s more than “a fair bit” and less than “a buttload”.