I took the plunge and bought a TCR 83 yesterday in 22/250. Beautiful wood but does have a few dings that need repair, metal is in great shape and overall the gun doesnt appear to have been shot much. Anyone have any tips that they would like to share on making the gun shoot as accurately as possible? Do these these rifles in this caliber have any particular bullets or loads that they like or dislike? I've attached the advertising photo - lets see if the picture will come through


Good shooting/hunting to all-

Jerry

Any thoughts on your new acquisition as a shooter? I stumbled upon one for sale a couple of days ago and I'm curious what you think of yours? Shot it yet? Decent trigger? Overall impressions of quality? It looks good in the photo, nice wood grain.

I've shot it with factory loads and it wasnt impressive - about 2" groups at 100 yds. I'm going to free float the forearm on the bbl then try some handloads and see if I can improve on this. Will post those results.

Good shooting to all,

Jerry

What do these run in cost?
Thx

I've got one I picked up several years ago with a 30-06 barrel. I thought it was beautiful but wasn't impressed with it's shooting.

Then I picked up a 22-250 and 270 barrels for it and was very impressed with the 22-250 barrel, it will shoot cloverleafs at 100 yds using a load I had developed for my 1885 Browning in that caliber. The 270 has only had factory rounds through it but it still shot 1.5 inch groups.

They are really a fine little rifle...

I have a four barrel set. 7Mag, 30-06, 30-378(!!) and a rare factory 12 gauge. They are neat rifles. The '06 shoots about 1.5" at 100yds.

Rich

I am moving on to a Steve Earle SS, my set could be bought for about $1100 shipped and insured to your ffl.

I had a TCR 83 and a deluxe TCR 87. Never could get either one to shoot as well as I wanted them to regardless of what barrel I used.

I had a 83 Aristocrat. I had to shim every barrel I bought to bring the point of impact down to a usable range. It shot pretty well, sometimes very well, Wish I handn't sold it.

dwheels - Are you saying you had to shim the scope base to get the scope zeroed? I had a Thompson-Center mount on my first TCR barrel and could not get the scope adjusted to sight in with it. When I replaced it with a Leupold scope mount there was no problem. And I've had no problems with any other barrels and their Leupold mounts. Also, I free-float he barrels from the forend stocks, so there is no pressure bending the barrels upward. This also makes it possible to remove and re-install a barrel without changing the vertical point of impact if the forend screw is not at just the right torque. Its then metal to metal contact, the lug on the barrel setting on the metal part in the forend. - DON

I sold the TCR to a friend of a friend. He did not want the factory 12 gauge barrel. Anyone here interested in it? $225 shipped and insured Priority Mail in CONUS.

Sorry for not being accurate in my post. I had to shim the front of the scope to bring the point of impact down. I would run out of adjustment on every scope I tried. I have three and five shot groups with both the 223 and 270 barrels that are really neat. a.222 and a.224 group back to back with the .223 barrel. My son has a couple of 5/8 and 1/2 groups in the .270. You will have to watch pressure as the usual signs are not there. A cratered primer wrapping itself around the firing pin is about all you will see before you perforate a primer.

I forgot to address the foremd question. Mine had a lever disconnect. No screw. It just hooked into the hook on the barrel and levered down into place. I didn't do anything with clearance of the front end.

I have a TC83 with 6 different rifle barrels. The four standard factory barrels all shoot MOA or better with selected handloads....the factory .243 and .30-06 barrels will do that with factory ammo. The factory custom shop barrels (a .32-40 ands a .225 Winchester) don't do as well.

I think that may because of one or two things...one, the custom shop barrels are longer and whippier, and two, the custom shop barrels have forends that do not fit them anywhere near as well as the standard factory forends fit the plain vanilla factory barrels. At least that is the way they are on my TCR'83 barrels.

Had a pal with a 4 barrel set model. Drove him nuts trying to get it to beat 1 & 1/2 MOA. Finally sold it to a TC collector (yes they exist) and bought an Encore with four barrels that shot sub MOA out of the box (and had a lot better trigger).

I've owned Savage 219s that shot better than his 83 !