Peakbagger46
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I don’t have a cheap rifle that shoots lights out. I do however have a new very expensive Weatherby Mark V that doesn’t shoot all that well so far lol.
Do you have a cheap rifle that shoots incredibly accurate
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D.B. Cooper
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Yikes. I remember when Weatherby was like...elitist...smh
Everyone turns out a lemon now and then.
Carl N. Brown
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100 yd benchrest target five shots
Black powder cartridge match
_Rifle Italian Carcano Model 38 short rifle made Terni arsenal 1940 bought for $65
_ Handloads in Norma of Sweden casings. 140 gr .264" JSP bullet. Winchester LR Magnum primers. Powder ffg Triple Se7en 38gr weighed charge.
_ Scope cheap intermediate eye relief slug shotgun scope picked up used at a gun show for $10 in a modified Savage 340 side mount about $5.
Black powder cartridge match
_Rifle Italian Carcano Model 38 short rifle made Terni arsenal 1940 bought for $65
_ Handloads in Norma of Sweden casings. 140 gr .264" JSP bullet. Winchester LR Magnum primers. Powder ffg Triple Se7en 38gr weighed charge.
_ Scope cheap intermediate eye relief slug shotgun scope picked up used at a gun show for $10 in a modified Savage 340 side mount about $5.
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caribou
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I bought most of my Finnish M-39' Mosins for under 100$.
Czeck BXN 7.62x54r silver tipped 148 grain, in laquerd steel cases in 800 round cases, 60$ each was VERY consitant and its bullet flipped when it impacted, yet usually held together, and just what a meat hunter needs.
Accurate and deadly.
There are few 'cheap' rifles that can out shoot a Finnsh M-39 with quality ammo coming out the barrel.......few.
Czeck BXN 7.62x54r silver tipped 148 grain, in laquerd steel cases in 800 round cases, 60$ each was VERY consitant and its bullet flipped when it impacted, yet usually held together, and just what a meat hunter needs.
Accurate and deadly.
There are few 'cheap' rifles that can out shoot a Finnsh M-39 with quality ammo coming out the barrel.......few.
herrwalther
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I have a PSA upper on a match grade lower I built in 5.56 that I can put rounds through the same hole at boring consistency at 100 yards with. I built the rifle for less than 600 with optics several years ago. Good for home defense or hunting in a pinch.
codytrucker
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I have a pair of Ruger predator Americans . one in 6MM Creedmoor the other in 22-250 . Both are in aftermarket stock's . The 6MM in Bell Carlson , 22-250 Boyd's . They will each shoot 1/4 inch with handloads . And I have a 788 Rem. I bought used that has a Savage 1 in 10 .223 barrel re-chambered to .221 F.B . and what I think is a Fajen stock I bought for a couple hundred bucks that shoots tiny groups with a load it likes . Three rifles that barely cost a grand between them and are the most accurate I have , out of about 50 . Nice surprise to say the least .
Charlie98
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My Savage 10TAC likes 168grn FGMM as well... it's the barometer I compare my handloads to. Last time I was out shooting my handload ladders, I was feeling all good about my groups and the loads, and then I shot 3 rounds of FGMM... annnnnnnnd back to the drawing board. I've decided to stop fighting it, and just use the SMK as my bullet of choice, instead of working between 3 or 4 different ones.... the Savage told me what it likes, it's up to me to listen to it.
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A very accurate rifle, especially for the price!
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Bazoo
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I don't have anything particularly outstanding at present. I once had a Remington Model 41 Targetmaster 22 rifle that was a tack driver with Federal plated bulk. At 25y, I could hit an empty 22 casing when I was able to see it. I could hit a stick or weed, either verticle or horizontal at 25y with it as well. I miss that old rifle. It had a splinter on the stock that pulled my whiskers occasionally and I had enough one day and sold it in a fever. I've always regretted it, and I even bought another Model 41 but it wasn't the tack driver that the first was.
D.B. Cooper
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Glad to hear your success with that ammo. I think it's a good alternative to handloading. I run that same ammo in 77 grn .223 for Service Rifle currently. It's exoensive, so I only use it at the 600 yrd line. Small Rifle primers are made of unobtainium, so I buy the Gold Metal Match instead.
Oddly enough. I've had good luck with cheap Hornady 55 rg at 200 and 300.
Dr T
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Remington Model 788 in 6 mm Rem that I bought when I was in college in the 70's. Half inch groups with it's favorite hand load
It is one of my favorite scopes. Maybe nowadays they don't make them like they did 40 years ago.
FL-NC
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My Ruger American predator in 6.5 CM and my Mossberg MVP in 223.
luv2safari
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Those 788s were spooky accurate and dirt cheap when new. I had one in 223 with a Weaver K10 for coyote hunting. I used head shots to save pelt damage.
They have lightning fast lock time.
luv2safari
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They're known for OTB accuracy.
offthepaper
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Both my Ruger Americans in 223 and 243 with cheap (under $200) scopes shoot very good right out of the box.
Bought the 243 at a Walmart clearance for $188. Those were the days.
Bought the 243 at a Walmart clearance for $188. Those were the days.
49willys
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Used to have a savage 111 in 338wm,regurarly shot .3"groups with hand loads.should have kept it.
Trey Veston
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Put me in the Ruger Predator club... .308...
Over the years since our forefather carried a musket, technology in metallurgy and ammunition being manufactured has changed so much so that most factory rifles, out of the box are MOA shooters. The one constant that has remained unchanged is the shooter, not all of us are MOA shooters without practice and the one variable that effects accuracy is always the wind.
.45Coltguy
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These comments regarding the Rem 788 ring sooo true. Had a 788 in .308 that was damn near as accurate as my Sako Finnbear . And that is saying something!
Price when i bought it: $139.00. Why did I ever sell it!? Young and dumb, I suppose.
Price when i bought it: $139.00. Why did I ever sell it!? Young and dumb, I suppose.
This 6.5 CM Savage Axis II was one of the cheapo Walmart closeouts and plus a $50 rebate and the $50 Nikon on closeout special from Dick's will shoot MOA all day long. I bedded it in with epoxy to the Boyds stock:
This little Marlin 917 .17HMR is laser accurate and I talked (Dick's) down on it because it has a slightly crooked stock:
Bedded in, DIP bottom metal, target trigger. Shoots three shots pretty much hole in hole over and over.
This little Marlin 917 .17HMR is laser accurate and I talked (Dick's) down on it because it has a slightly crooked stock:
Bedded in, DIP bottom metal, target trigger. Shoots three shots pretty much hole in hole over and over.
Riomouse911
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My Ruger American .22 Magnum resides in a Boyd’s laminate stock now. It shoots very well with several loads for an inexpensive.22 WMR.
Stay safe.
Stay safe.
Freudianfloyd
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I have a Remington model 41 .22 that had been in a fire. The gun must've been sitting in a corner during the fire because the barrel had a slight bow to it. My grandpa and I put an old Winchester stock on it because it is what he had on hand. I took it out one day and shot at a weed in the middle of the soy bean field. I figured it was an impossible shot, but after a slight gust of wind, the weed fell over. I went up and examined it, and it had a hole right through the middle. It is also a great squirrel gun.
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