I'm not stoned. My sample is around 15 or so examples so maybe I haven't shot enough of them to find a good one. In my experience, those High Standard barrels on the Higgins are terribly ROUGH and hard to get to shoot (as are most of the cut rifled barrels I've messed with on the older non-Higgins FN Mausers).
In the 6 years I have owned the JCH .30-06 M50, short of a different barrel, a comprehensive list of poor accuracy/precision fixes has not changed how well it will group bullets. < 1% of the time, it will make a sub-MOA 3 shot group. > 99% it can be relied on to make 2 -3" group.
I bought the rifle for the FN action so, of course, I had to shoot the donor. It became a challenge because of the chrome lined bore - hidden silk purse, Internet, legend of JCH M50s all shooting one hole groups all day long as long as the shooter does their part. Thanks for kinda spoiling the hope I had of finding the hidden tunnel to the secret hand shake.
