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I have two. Both manufactured around 1980/1981 if I recall)

The first is a .250 Savage Ultralight that groups three 100gn bullets (Hornady and Ballistic Tips) under an inch at 100m. It has been bedded and had the trigger worked by a gunsmith. It wears the same 2-7x33 Luepold for the past 20 years.

The second is a .257 Roberts standard rifle in very good condition for it's age (probably 95% like new). However, it wouldn't group better than 1 3/4 inches at 100m. 115gn Ballistics Tips might of squeezed into 1 1/2 inch. I tried five or six different 100gn and the same number of 115 - 120gn bullets but it must of been one of those Wilson barrels that we all know about. However, it was too nice a rifle to sell, and as I have two other Bobs that both group under an inch, I rebarreled it to 7x64. Now it is a tack driver. It wears a Luepold 6x36.

Strange how two rifles from the same era with the same barrels shoot so differently.