Well I fall on the side of if the barrel is straight,along with a straight chamber, a good trigger all bedded into a stock with good sights-you then can get most cartridges to shoot at least one or two loads that you can cover with a quarter! For hunting rifles its plenty, shooting varmints or out the the next zip code you may need better than that, it will cost a lot more money. For out of the box, its been my experience that a Sako will shoot about the best and with no having to mess around with bedding and trigger work! Rifles like Ruger M-77's Winchesters and Remington will need some degree of TLC or fine tuning to get them to shoot to there potential, the cartridge is secondary- thou the less recoil the better for those bung hole groups for some people to produce from time to time! I put the sight as #1 because you have to be able to see well in order to shoot well to begin with- glass sights for Irons, you just need good eyes more so than for glass!
