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I picked up a fairly poor conditioned 700ml at auction a couple months ago for $30, it was missing a bolt, but I had on that needed the handle reattached so I figured why not, my brother in law had been bugging me to find him one our sell him mine. So after picking the gun up I was able to soak and remove the stuck #11 breechplug. I pushed out alot of rust. There is still rifling in the barrel but she is rough. I went ahead and put a 209 nose kit on it and and been trying to get the gun to group with my arrowhead 209 plug from my 700ml, before I bought one for this gun. I first shoot the gun with open sights at 50 yards with white hots and 300gr .458 hornaday with orange sabot. It shot would I thought was decent group at 50 yards open sights. Fast forward 2 months I have shot hornady 250gr SST and white hots, 240gr hornady cheap shot knurled up to .456/7 with T7. The best group I have shot with it was 25 yards with 300gr hornady .458 HP. I moved out to 100 yards and it was fringe minuet of pie plate! Now the first attempt in zeroing this gun I had a burris scope fail. This past weekend was the first time shooting it since I received a new scope. The bro inlaw that wants the gun (if i can get it to shoot) has an optima thats barrel looks the same or even worse than this 700ml but after fouling 3/4 shots will hold a 3-4in group at 100 yards. He isn't looking for a tackdriver just a reliable deer getter out to 100-125 yards. Thinking of giving the 458 bullets one more shot. Any recommendations of squeezing anything out of this gun that I"m over looking is greatly appreciated. Or maybe its a parts gun or smokeless donor actions.