MudRunner2005
Well-Known Member
An older post is an understatement... This thread has been dead longer than Robert DeNiro's career...
Yeah, but when you're shooting a living thing, don't you want your rifle to be just as precise as a bench gun? Don't we owe it to the game we harvest to be as accurate and make as good and clean a shot as possible? You'll never hear a sniper say he was happy with MOA accuracy... Most aren't happy unless their gun consistently shoots 1/2 MOA or better.I think we have also found that bullet jump(freebore) doesn't always mean poor accuracy. I own 4 Weatherbys and all are MOA or better. I think we have to remember they are hunting rifles not bench guns.
Hell, I've owned several, still have a couple of them in the safe, one is my custom lightweight Browning A-Bolt II in 7mmRM I had built in 2014. Handlaoding for them helps tremendously. It originally shot between 1/2 to 3/4 MOA, but after more load development I've got it down to a consistent 1/2. It's got a 26" magnum sporter contour barrel on it.I hear what you are saying and no doubt 1/2 moa is great, but in my 45 yrs of shooting I have seen very very few true 1/2 moa hunting rifles. I have read of alot but seen very few.