44 mag handi rifle scope rail

[mwaym]

Just bought a 44 mag handi rifle..... should I unscrew the scope rail and lock-tite the screws, or is it done from the factory ?? I just don't want it to work loose from shooting

 

[Fordtough25]

My good friend has one of those and after a ton of shooting before and during deer season last year his base was fine. He did lose a scope ring nut though!

 

[rotortech]

Absolutely, yes, loctite.

 

[Mad Dog]

Yes, take it off and locktite it using the blue.


Mad Dog

 

[quake]

Yeah I would do it just to be sure. Better safe than sorry....

 

[42769vette]

You may need to add loctite, you may not. To me the confidence is worth the time and money it will take to do it so Just do it and be on the safe side

 

[mwaym]

Thanks y'all.. That's what I was thinkin... It's better to know it is not comin loose then, find out during season....

 

[Hookeye]

Degrease the holes before using the Loctite blue.

 

[Cam]

Having just gone through this process on two of these guns last summer in prep for last years deer season, abso-freakin-lutely take that base off, clean everything of oil, make sure that base fits flush to the barrel, and loctite blue on the screws. I ended up having to do some fitting to the base on one of mine so it would fit the barrel.

A different suggestion would also be to check the fore stock-to-barrel fit. Both of ours fit very tightly and unevenly to the point where as the barrel would get a little heat in it from 5 or so shots, the accuracy would go to hell in a hand basket. Once taking some material off the forestock to "float" the barrel, they both made much nicer groups.

 

[mwaym]

Thanks all...... Cam.... what do you mean by "float" the barrel ???? I guess I am trying to get a visual of what you did

 

[Mgderf]

Thanks all...... Cam.... what do you mean by "float" the barrel ???? I guess I am trying to get a visual of what you did

Floating a barrel just means removing stock material until it no longer makes contact with the barrel.
Theory being if hot spots develop during firing, like where the barrel contacts the stock, accuracy will suffer.