Trying to merge 2 eternal threads.
My first was a 788 in .243, when I was 12. According to the internet, mine was the ONLY one that ever left the factory that wasn't a one-hole, tack-driving suminabitch. 3 or 4 MOA was more like it. Anyway, it killed deer as well as I could shoot it, but I wouldn't have been comfortable going for elk or moose with it.
How about the rest of you? Have you chased the rainbow in rifles &/or cartridges, when your first rifle realistically would have carried you through all your hunting?
FC