Is your other one properly glass bedded and does it also have a proven scope and mounts on it? What's the bore condition? The classic 7mm08 I had was a great shooter after I removed the factory hot blue bedding and replaced it with something better, trigger fine tuned and adjusted to a very clean 2.5 pounds and worked up a load for it. It shot moa for 5 shots. Definitely good enough for hunting with.
That's one of the reasons I'm swapping out the scope for a FFII, at least for this test. The mounts are fine. The bedding could be an issue - BACO hot-glue - we'll see. I'm more of a hunter than a tinkerer, so if all this fails I'll need to consider some other alternatives. Thx.