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Thread: What is the most accurate factory rifle you own?

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    What is the most accurate factory rifle you own?

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    pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight in 30-06

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    I have a couple of Tikka 595's that are solid 3/8 MOA for five shot groups.

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    I have several Savage rifles that shoot consistent 1.5 inch groups at 200 yards.

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    My Tikka T3 22-250 and 25-06. They both will group under 1/2" if I do my part.
    One of my nephews leaves his FN Police Rifle here and it is a solid 1/4" MOA rifle(.308)

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    h&r handi ultra in 223

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    Browning (Miroku) A-bolt .30-06 without BOSS and my 168gr handloads

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    Remember 700 in 223, action trued, lugs lapped, 28" 1:8 Krieger, Timney trigger. 1/2 MOA or less.

    Believe it or not, my DPMS 24" LR-308 isn't far behind it.

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    I really ever had one super accurate factory rifle . It was a late 70's Rem 700 bdl varmit in 222 totally stock never messed with bedding or anything else 1/4" 5 rd groups were the norm with handloaded 50-52 gr flat base bullets . Have owned lots of rifles that would do under an inch at 100 but never had another like that triple Duce sold long ago in the foolishness of my youth
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    Quote Originally Posted by RU shooter View Post
    I really ever had one super accurate factory rifle . It was a late 70's Rem 700 bdl varmit in 222 totally stock never messed with bedding or anything else 1/4" 5 rd groups were the norm with handloaded 50-52 gr flat base bullets . Have owned lots of rifles that would do under an inch at 100 but never had another like that triple Duce sold long ago in the foolishness of my youth
    I mirror your stupidity. I had the same gun and sold it as well about 30 years ago. It was a 1/2 MOA with any decent load.

    My current most accurate is a M70 Coyote in .308. It will shoot 1/2 MOA with Sierra 165 GameKings.

    BTW, I am amazed at how well current factory rifles will shoot.
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    I got a 788 in 223 that is an accurate shooter, and I agree the current factory rifles are all good.

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    Tikka T3 hunter, laminate and stainless, in 30-06. Working up loads is boring....anything you feed it is well sub-MOA. ALMOST not even fun......
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    Quote Originally Posted by HangFireW8 View Post
    Rem 788 .222Rem.
    Mine would be a Remington 722 in .222 Remington.

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    CZ 527 Full Stock model in 223 Remington with the set trigger. More than once (on my good days) it has given me groups under half inch at 100 yards, using sandbags to steady my aim.
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    Sako L46 in 222rem, still as issued and good for 5 in a 1/2 at 100 when my patience holds. A Rem 700 in 308 is right there but its now bedded into a 40x stock for position shooting.
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    Had an old savage 110 in 7mm magnum bought it for myself after my first deployment into harms way, got it used for $175! Sold it about 7 years later and I've never had another off the rack rifle that could shoot like that one it was heavy and had a very very pain piece of wood and a mid level Simmons scope on it and it would just shoot ,in a bean field in South Carolina one year a doe was sticking her head through a open gate to eat from the other side, where of course the grass was greener! Anyhow it was 198 yards to the gate the doe just on the other side, I had for tags so I lined up the shot and click,never had chambered a round after getting off the quad so I chambered a round,waited till her head came through the gate again and put the cross hairs on the ear facing me,dead bang straight through both ears! I literally could eat right up to the hole.
    that rifle was so accurate i only played with 3 loads, 150 grain partition and 175 grain core lokt Wood chucks at 3 -400 yards feared the little 120 grain speers! Needing money to finish remodeling in time for my daughter to be born I sold that savage and a few other guns,we do what we have to for our kids!

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