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<blockquote data-quote="5.56×250" data-source="post: 2480867" data-attributes="member: 110162"><p>In this age, a rifle that won't shoot under moa w even a factory load it likes, is a non starter IMHO. Years ago , moa at 100 yards w factory ammo was my maximum acceptable grouping size . Id bed the stock, float the barrel, and work the trigger down to 3lbs or less . Then I'd buy a box of the ammo I preferred for the type of game I'd hunt and settle down on the bench . If that ammo wouldnt do 3 in less than an inch , I'd go pick up another brand and try that. If it didn't do it by the third box, I'd move that rifle down the road. Well, at least that would be my intent. I never did that to a single rifle that didn't do better than moa . I never did a prescribed break in either. Id clean the rifle between different ammo brands during testing and that was it. Most all were cheap savage 110Es . I liked them because the stock was bulky and that allowed me to custom contour the pistol grip and forend to my liking . It was a ritual rifle build every year before deer season came in . Id build one, hunt the season and sell it to a friend so they would have a shooter. Rinse and repeat the following summer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5.56×250, post: 2480867, member: 110162"] In this age, a rifle that won't shoot under moa w even a factory load it likes, is a non starter IMHO. Years ago , moa at 100 yards w factory ammo was my maximum acceptable grouping size . Id bed the stock, float the barrel, and work the trigger down to 3lbs or less . Then I'd buy a box of the ammo I preferred for the type of game I'd hunt and settle down on the bench . If that ammo wouldnt do 3 in less than an inch , I'd go pick up another brand and try that. If it didn't do it by the third box, I'd move that rifle down the road. Well, at least that would be my intent. I never did that to a single rifle that didn't do better than moa . I never did a prescribed break in either. Id clean the rifle between different ammo brands during testing and that was it. Most all were cheap savage 110Es . I liked them because the stock was bulky and that allowed me to custom contour the pistol grip and forend to my liking . It was a ritual rifle build every year before deer season came in . Id build one, hunt the season and sell it to a friend so they would have a shooter. Rinse and repeat the following summer. [/QUOTE]
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