I wanted to share this one because it puts to rest that you must spend a lot of money to have a highly accurate rifle.
I came up shooting with Tony Boyer and Kenny Jarrett. Probably the best marksman I have ever had the privilege of shooting against. If you ever followed the benchrest circuit you know Tony……no one beat Tony, no one.
Kenny was good but went on to building his own rifles, if you ever see one you’ll know they are high quality, but nasty expensive.
I say all that to qualify my remarks regarding accurate rifles. I know what they should be capable of. What you see in this photograph is a Savage receiver ($200) in .308. Which is not a benchrest cartridge. A Kreiger barrel ($450 bought years ago) in a Bell and Carlson stock with an aluminum chassis inside a fiberglass outer and dipped. If memory serves it was around $300 when I bought it. It carries a 45x Leupold scope.
OK, that was overly expensive, but I’m old and need the extra power. It will shoot a clover at 200 meters. With my handloads I can group three shots inside of .475. For comparison my competition rifles are all in 6ppc and shoot close to .250 if I’m having a good day. However they cost outrageously more money for that very slight improvement. I have a lot of rifles that are really nice, but this is one of my favorites because I built it, and it shoots.