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David's Benelli R1 may be the exception to the BAR being "best in class". I've never used one, although a good bud had one in 300 WM that he thought a lot of.

Those Benilli's are accurate, may outshoot the BAR. That may depend on the individual gun. In making the "best in class" statement, I was thinking Rem 7400 and those that followed, and the Win 100. I had a bud with the Win 100 and it would shoot 3" on a good day off the bench. I glassed the 6" or so of the forearm that touched the barrel, shrunk groups in half. It has a big hollow area in the stock for action bars to operate, only the last 6" or so of the stock actually touches the barrel.

I was never able to do much with the Rem 7400 series, other than improve the trigger. What you see is what you get. The BAR will generally out shoot the Rem and Win. And it seems to be a more solid, better built gun than either of those.

DF