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Most accurate hunting rifle out of the box

It's not the arrow-

It's the Indian.

If you can't manage <1" groups @100yds
It won't matter what you hunt with & animals are going to suffer!
 
Here's a group I shot from a bone stock, out of the box 20+ year old Pre accu trigger Savage 110FP . The first three rounds cut each other in half. I screwed up the last two, but still is a very respectable group for a factory rifle with no modifications whatsoever. Also I might add that the load was not even weighed and bullet seated down to canelure. No fancy measuring done. I used a Lee powder scoop and an ordinary Hornady 150 gr soft point hunting bullet... Scope was a cheap Korean made Swift. When I say I believe in my Savage rifles I mean it. I might add that new, this rifle only cost me around $350.00 in Minnesota.
I have heard great things about Sako and Tika, but never seen any groups. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford one.
 

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Got a Sako 85 Varmit in 308 win, after adjusting the trigger to 2 lbs it shot in the low 3s all morning using my first reloads; Berger 155s with 42.0 gns of Varget and touching the lands. Thanks to everyone who contribute to this site that helps this novice come up the learning curve, I am having a ball.
 
Would like to hear opinions on which out of the box rifle is the most accurate for hunting western game? Mule deer & Elk. Will hand load,also will accurize by bedding action and floating barrel.
Have had 2 110's last several years, .270 and 30:06, both sub moa out of box with factory ammo.
 
Have had 2 110's last several years, .270 and 30:06, both sub moa out of box with factory ammo.
I shot an older 110 in 7rem mag. that was the most recoil I have ever felt with any gun, ever. And I shoot 12 gauge slugs from a bench!
 
I'll throw in another sako 75 in here. Mine in 223 shoots in the .3s or better with just about every factory 50gr vmax round I've tried. Solid .2s with handloads. My friends 75 in 6ppc shoots even tighter than that.
 
The components for this 300 WSM came in boxes.... ;)

With some more load development, it could be in the running. .21 MOA is the best I've managed so far with the first 20 shots down the barrel.

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Although if we're including old "out of the box" rifles (I'm a new guy here and will probably get thrown out over this) Remington 788, ugly as heck but the two I bought way back shot factory loads into little cloverleafs. Still have em and they still shoot.
 

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