What kind of groupings would you call very accurate? It seems ~1 MOA is treated like the holy grail or something, but seems attainable for almost any decently built rifle with minimal work.
Even my Savage 7 that I got beat up and rusty for $90ish will shoot ~1.5-2" at 100 yds with a 4x scope, unlocked bolt (semi auto, blowback) and cheap (brick) ammo -- more accurate than the scope hairs. It's even still got the crappy round face crown on it. So what gives?
Even my Savage 7 that I got beat up and rusty for $90ish will shoot ~1.5-2" at 100 yds with a 4x scope, unlocked bolt (semi auto, blowback) and cheap (brick) ammo -- more accurate than the scope hairs. It's even still got the crappy round face crown on it. So what gives?
I thought that was impressive! 100 yards, holy smokes..! For pellets, i use RWS exclusively. They ain't cheap, but you miss less often! 
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. We (gunsmith friend that did the actual micro 'labor' to the plinker) came to the conclusion that the piston was projecting the pellet out too fast and too much blow by was being created (excess/wasted pressure blown out/past the pellet... like oil past cylinder rings). We came up w/ the idea that it needed an entirely different barrel. He made one that was about .060 wider in diameter and the ID was ~.020 smaller (if I remember right). The length was 4"s longer, and the rifling was rewound tighter and he got 3 extra rotations by doing so. The wider barrel created a more solid initial ejection of the pellet, the longer barrel compensated for the blowby, and the narrowed ID created enough of a seat that the pellets nolonger flew out the barrel "crooked". The tighter rifling created a longer/straighter flight path, w/ significantly less drop!
