RecoilRob
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I have tried everything but a Catholic Exorcisim
Ooooo...I hadn't thought about demonic possession, but anything IS possible! Hopefully your champion shooter will find what's up with the rifle. If it's not in the barrel, then it might be in the chamber itself and besides re-barrelling or maybe cutting and re-chambering there might not be much to be done to fix it.
On my handloads it seems that the bullet run-out is one of the really critical things to make them accurate. So starting the bullet square and straight means it'll travel down the barrel straight and come out the other end consistently. Start it crooked and it'll come out crooked and go wherever it wants to. If the chamber isn't concentric or the leade is cut improperly you don't have much of a chance making ammo it'll shoot well.
We had a fellow at the range once with a brand new S&W revolver that was spraying bullets across the target. At first he was convinced that he just couldn't shoot it, but everyone else gave it a go and nobody did any better...and there were some good shots in the bunch so something was up with the gun. I looked down the barrel with my chamber light and I swear the rifling jogged in the middle of the barrel! Like the button skipped a tooth and the bullet had to be re-engraved by the new set of rifling. No wonder it wouldn't shoot right!
Anything built by man, even a good one can be defective as we all have our days when you just have a problem getting things as good as they should be so hopefully Remington will stand behind the gun and make it right if there's nothing you can do to fix it. Wonder if they still have good people in the shop who CAN make it right? Or they'll just ship you another off the assembly line and let you take your chances? Hopefully they have some grumpy old codger over in the corner who will take pity on the rifle and make it right.