Originally Posted by shortactionsmoker
I had an interesting conversation with a guy today. He asked me what I considered the most important factors in accuracy of a rifle. Forget the scope, mounts, ammo....just the most important baselines for developing a truly accurate rifle.

He gave my five choices:

Quality of Barrel
Good Trigger
Perfect Crown
Stress Free Bedding
Trued Action

He wanted me to list them 1. through 5. He and I debated for a while and I enjoyed the talk. We both had valid points for our choices.

In order of most important to least important, mine were;
1. Stress Free Bedding
2. Good Trigger
3. Perfect Crown
4. Trued Action
5. Quality of Barrel

How would you rate them 1 - 5?
Exactly the opposite of you. I've seen/shot rifles with piss poor bedding with obvious action/barrel stress shoot great. I've also shot fantastic groups with rifles that had absolutely atrocious triggers. They can be overcome.