New to the game. Sort of a blank slate you could say. I've been intrigued with the idea of a LR shot for awhile now. Well, it looks like it's coming together. Maybe, heck, it may fly apart, who knows. Ok, so I inherited my fathers Remington 700 chambered in 270 with a Leupold VX-6 to set on top. It's not mounted on it now. The gun is a 1971 ADL w/ wood stock and NO recoil pad at all. I would like to have the ability to take down a deer at 800-1000 yds. My thoughts are to upgrade the stock(found some on Ebay) to a synthetic one w/ recoil pad, maybe two sling studs up front, one for a bipod. Mount the scope and get it on paper. Once on the paper, I don't care if it's zeroed yet, stuff various brands of ammo down range to figure out what it likes by the grouping. I'm thinking 100 yards should be a pretty good indication on grouping. Once that is determined, zero the scope with the proper ammo. My questions are; 1. 20MOA base or zero cant base? 2. What ammo to try during the testing. Manufacture, grain etc. 3. Should I do anything with the new stock to improve or hold accuracy? Best case practices. 4. Recommendations on bipod. Manufacture, adjustment Heights. 5. I feel like I should record the data on the ammo and elements while performing the test but I'm not sure what information to record or what format/layout would work the best. I'm sure I missed a lot, but this is a start. Any and all information is valuable to me. Thanks