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    Posted: October/13/2012 at 19:00
so i have a remington 742 woodsmaster .243 cal...yeah yeah i know worse gun ever made. so my granny gave me this gun and i want to kill a deer with it but i cant get it sighted in. today i shot at a target 100yrds away and landed two shots good and tight about one inch low. next i decide i want to set the scope to shoot one inch high, the next three shot are even lower and all over the target. i then try to go back to sqaure one and it shoots even more eratic and still low?????any ideas? its a tasco 3-9x40
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742 is probably fine and has served many people well. The scope, on the other hand, is a toss up depending on when it was made, etc. If you don't want to put a lot of money in that setup get a Bushnell 3200 or similar. A Weaver V3 can be had for around $150 and would complement that rifle well. Not for beanfields but neither is the rifle. Semi-auto like that seems more like a quick off-hand rifle for the thick stuff, which is a perfect application for the Weaver.
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Originally posted by james b james b wrote:

so i have a remington 742 woodsmaster .243 cal...yeah yeah i know worse gun ever made. so my granny gave me this gun and i want to kill a deer with it but i cant get it sighted in. today i shot at a target 100yrds away and landed two shots good and tight about one inch low. next i decide i want to set the scope to shoot one inch high, the next three shot are even lower and all over the target. i then try to go back to sqaure one and it shoots even more eratic and still low?????any ideas? its a tasco 3-9x40
 
There's your problem right there!!  It wears a Tasco; I had a simular problem on my 30-30 many years ago, but my rifle wore a Simmons.  Upgraded the scope to a Leupold for the time being and never had any more problems from it.  It now sports a Redfield Revolution and it's a sweet shooter.
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Welcome to Optics Talk.

Well, could be loose action screws, base/cap screws, or the scope may be a goner. Is there any way you can switch the scope out with a proven one you have, or maybe borrow a friends? 


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I have nothing against the 742 for a good deer rifle. I would doubt the Tasco much sooner. A this time with the closeout on the Sightron 2.5-10 S-1 for $99 would be hard to beat and is a lot better scope than the Tasco.
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Originally posted by 3_tens 3_tens wrote:

I have nothing against the 742 for a good deer rifle. I would doubt the Tasco much sooner. A this time with the closeout on the Sightron 2.5-10 S-1 for $99 would be hard to beat and is a lot better scope than the Tasco.
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