Savage 110 w/ the age old vertical stringing prob.

1.5" at 100 is excellent accuracy for a deer rifle. Most hunters would sell their kids and mothers for that kind of accuracy. I wouldn't bother doing anything else. A Savage 110 is not and never was a target rifle.
 
hal9000, how often does that rifle shoot 1/2 inch groups at 225 yards with Nosler off the shelf ammo?

All the time?
 
Bart, once I got warmed up and settled in, every group I shot that I didn't call a pulled shot at the time of firing turned out to be a sub 1" group, and of those, most were notably smaller than 1" although I just eyeballed them on the 1" grid lines of the target. But I haven't shot the rifle all that much. (30 rds or so yesterday, and I was doing two shot groups most of the time just for sighting purposes... so put "group" in finger quotes if you wish) Nosler ammo is spendy and not locally available for me and I need to save enough for my upcoming hunt. Once I start developing my own loads I'll do more verification.
 
For what it's worth, I've always thought that most people unknowingly blame their rifle for a lot of their own shooting inaccuracy. It's purely anecdotal on my part, but I don't own a bolt gun that couldn't be made to shoot sub MOA with just some mild trigger work, bedding/floating, and a properly mounted scope or good peep sights. And I don't own anything special. My other hunting rifle (a 70's vintage Winchester Mod 70 in 25-06) shoots 3/8 MOA consistently with my loads (developed for the rifle by my grandfather back in the day). Although from his notes, he could only get "almost 1 1/4 MOA" out of it with those same loads.
 
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