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Another shot of my PWS Spring 2007 Brown Bear. Steve

Just want to say that if I knew to clean under the gas rings I would not have had to replace the gas piston. The o-rings I damaged by removing the gas piston over them without removing them first. I have shot the rifle over 3 years and had very few issues with it. As far as your zero moving, could be many reason for that . Could be in your optics or the way it is mounted. I really like my R-1, I have carried it so much that it feels like a part of my arm now. To me it is a great 300 yards or less fast shooting, soft recoil, stay in the scope type rifle. I have taken a Ram at 400 yards but that is close to my max range. Hope you get to like yours better. Steve

Mine is the Comfortech, you have to remove the gas piston. Then remove the locking ring that holds the rings. With mine the trouble was gunk between the rings and the piston. Steve

the corrosion after I cleaned off the gunk. a view of some of the corrosion on the end of the piston as well, this may be caused from hot gas coming out of the barrel. Steve

Okay, so I shoot my R-1 a lot. After using this rifle all over Alaska it started to jam on me. When I say Jam I should say that the bolt would not go all the way forward and the trigger would pull and I would hear a click and it would not fire. I would have to recycle the bolt and fire again. I clean this gun like a fanatic, so I clean it again and still it continues to jam. After a while it gets so bad I can't count on it. I hunt bears in Alaska and I bet my life on my rifle and I need to know it will fire when I pull the trigger. I was in a fix, leaving for a hunt in a few days and my primary weapons is jamming. So I tear it down again, I notice that the gas piston feels tight. I remember the piston assembly moving freely with the bolt locked to the rear. Mine was binding badly. I removed the lock ring from the piston assembly and found it to be severely corroded between the rings and the piston itself. I could not find anywhere in the manual that said to clean the piston assembly this way. The corrosion was building up under the rings causing the piston to bind in the barrel. I cleaned the corrosion off and oiled the parts and reassembled the rifle and I and happy to say that she is back in the game. I have now added disassembling and cleaning the piston assembly to my cleaning plan. Hope this might help some others that have had trouble. I ordered a new piston assembly from Brownell's This is the piston assembly corrosion under the rings

Nice Bull, posted this for another member. Nice

I changed mine after about 300 rounds, they were damaged from removing the gas piston and the edges had gotten flat. About 8 bucks each at Brownells. Steve

A shot from moose camp. Steve

This is a winter kill Caribou we happened upon. Steve

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Here is a few to show how you get to where to game is. Steve

Couple moose camp shots. Steve

My friend took this bear during the 2007 spring season. My R-1 helped him make sure the tracking job was a short one. Steve

Thanks, I've started taking more and more photo's. Nice to sit back and re-live the hunts and just being outside. Steve

This is the pack out of the brown bear from Prince William Sound. Steve

All self-guided, Just trying to see Alaska over the barrel of my R-1. This moose was taken by another hunter on my float hunt. Bear Tracks Steve

Yes, for late Aug this was a little warm. Not many pack outs without a shirt this time of year. Steve

The grizzly came into the gut pile from this Caribou. Another notch for my trusted R-1. Steve

This years caribou. Have shot my R-1 over 300 times. Have learned much about this rifle, taken game from the mountains of Alaska to the Sea shore and allot of places in between. Steve

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Shot these bears this year with my R-1 in 300 Win mag Steve

I have to say that is a sweet looking R-1 Steve

Here is a couple more that met Mr Benelli and my Leoplod Scope.

I have that same setup and I really like it. I have taken 3 animals with it. Ram 400 yards, moose 325yards and a Bou at about 60 yards. I did have a gun smith work my trigger. Other than that keep it clean and try some differant ammo to find what it likes best. You would be surprised at the differance ammo cam make. Mine would jam with some but it really likes to shoot Federal Premium 180 grain Barnes MRX bullets. It groups these to within less than 1 MOA and they really pack a punch. Has been lights out for everything I have shot at. Hit my moose 4 times all 4 hits within a pie plate at 325 yards. The first shot went thru both shoulders. Just kept shooting to stop him from getting into the brush. The one picture is of the recover Barnes bullet. I drilled a hole in the wood that I mounted the antlers on.

The shot on this bou was only at about 60 yards, however he was running like his but was on fire, nice to have a rifle that you can shoot and stay in the scope for the follow up shot. Hit him with the 3rd shot. My R-1 is a great rifle and it spits Barnes X bullets like darts. The proof is on the ground. Lets see what other have bagged with thier Bennelli's.