Originally Posted by jwall
An Addendum :

I remember the 70s—80s when 1 “ groups were the
goal and rarely achieved W/O handloading.

Whether it’s better bullets, metallurgy, barrels or
bedding <maybe a combination> we have seen great strides.

Jerry



Jerry,

My experience is that better bullets have made the most difference--along with factory rifles being bedded better. Have gotten well under sub-inch accuracy with quite a few older rifles using today's bullets, though I sometimes had to "adjust" the bedding--which was often as easy as free-floating the barrel with a plastic bread-bag clip behind the recoil lug.


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