Same rifle, different chassis/stock.

[Heym SR20]

With any rifle, once its set up, don’t mess with it.

 

[HonestJohn]

With any rifle, once it’s set up, don’t mess with it.

Spot on

The change barrel, change stocks, change scopes malarkey might work most of the time if done VERY well and to specific tolerances; and then there will be those few times when it doesn’t. - that’s when you regret it.

Personally, the rifle I grab when I open the cabinet, is the one I have the most trust in. It tends to be the old M65 with a wooden stock and a x42mm glass scope. The screws get a ‘check tighten’ when it gets cleaned quarterly - that’s it. Never failed since I first met it, decades ago. The only thing that ever failed it was a loose Optilock screw with base and ring screw that only tightened from the (invisible) bottom - you could never check they were tight without taking the rings off and having to re-zero. Satans type of scope mounts.

Since that brief episode, it now wears one piece EAW steel rings.

 

[trickie]

Are you having to rezero every time?

No, as long as I set the stock mounting screws to the correct ft/lbs all is good.
If this would be different with a larger calibre I wouldn’t know.