Greetings:  I finally had a chance to spend some quality time at the range today with my Krag Rifle and an issue came up that I would like some help with.  Several months ago I installed a new Criterion barrel on my rifle and the project turned out pretty good.  While not a Doug Turnbull restoration, it looks really nice.  So far I have only shot Hornady 168/155 Amax bullets in this rifle as they work well through the action.  I was only shooting for a group today at 100 yards and the rifle did quite well with one exception.  I was getting a primary group of just about 1.5 inches, however every 2nd or 3rd shot would impact slightly high and to the left by about 2 inches.  This was a repeatable issue every time I fired a new group.  This was with the 155 Amax loads.  The rifle doesn't seem to like the 168 Amax bullets very much as they grouped about 2.5" give or take.

I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue and if so what did you do to correct it?  I am leaning towards opening up the front barrel band a bit to see if that helps.  The front band has the barrel pretty well trapped and there isn't any give that I can feel.  Or could this be an issue with the rear barrel band being too tight?  I am open to suggestions.  Thanks for any help.

Rick H.

Sorry, but the picture I attached is rotated to the left for some reason, but you will see where the bullets hit.

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