The Three SOCOMS I have shot were 8" guns at 100 yards.
My Bush gun is a 2 to 2.5 incher.
There is something inherently accuracy wrong with most of the SOCOMs IMHO, baised on my experience, and what I have read from the experience of others.
Yep. My SOCOM was a 6" gun @ 100 yds w/ Remington Match ammo until I fixed it up:
Shimmed gas cylinder.
Put it in a tight fitting wood stock.
Now it shoots about 1.5" at 100 w/ the same ammo.
The SOCOM seemed much more dependent on a good fitting stock and tight GC than my Loaded. I suspect this is because of the shorter, more rigid barrel. When a bullet is fired, it tends to make the barrel whip all around inducing "barrel harmonics" - a shorter barrel is more rigid than a long one, so it will move less but this energy has to go somewhere - it seems to go into moving the receiver about in the stock more so than with a longer barrel.
Shimming up the gas cylinder is probably particularly effective on the SOCOM because there is so little barrel left for the bullet to travel as the GC pressurizes. Keeping that tight works wonders.
A shim kit is like $12. A beater surplus wood stock can be had for $20 or so. Pretty cheap way to test this all out... If it gets your SOCOM shooting well, then look to refinishing the wood to make it nice looking, or look for another stock more to your liking.
