I was at the club talking with a member shooting a new Savage black 308 bolt on special from cabelas. I guess an easy sub moa shooter. Another club member got one and for the short money, same story - very accurate. At the same time this guy traded in a much more expensive savage target model that just would not shoot for crap no matter what he tried. And he was good.
I had seem that very gun, picked it up and put it back. Now, he tells me he was at cabelas perusing the gun library and see a guy looking over that same piece of crap he traded. he is really torn to say something and risk the consequences or just walking on. It sold eventually. I bet that gets passed around to a lot of owners until it finally gets a new barrel.
It was a bit ironic, that a low cost special shot so well while a top match gun was messed up.
Savage, Remington, Ruger all have their lemons. Most makers really. With more automation, less hands on, makes it easier for a poor guns too slip out from bad/worn tooling etc... Remingtom is not an easy rebarrel either. You hear about remlins, same outfit, cranking out the new marlins.
True story.