KY, I'm going to pick on you a bit only because it's a useful teachable moment. The targets above are not showing nearly the accuracy you believe they are, because you are going only off group size in each case and NOT accounting for the shift in the center of each group. If you aggregated all of these groups around the center bull, you'd find the grouping was far less impressive.
You are assuming I had the same POA on every circle, which was not the case. Not only did my POA vary throughout (sometimes I held on the center bull, sometimes the 3 o'clock position, sometimes the 6 o'clock position, etc.), but I was also deliberately dialing a click or two off so as to not shoot out my POA, and those "click offs" varied, too. In other words, I was shooting for group only, and at times dodging the wind.
I also up to now have been shooting ammo optimized for the old barrel. I still do not know what the optimal recipe is for this barrel.
But I can't wait to get there.
However, this thread is not about how great a custom or semi-custom rifle can shoot, it is about what to expect with a factory barrel. My point was, anyone after serious accuracy is probably better off foregoing the time and expense of trying to make a factory gun shoot .3 moa, and instead to put that money into a custom or semi-custom.
I just sent my gunsmith another one of those Rem. 700's to build me a super-accurate 7mm-08. That is "hopefully," of course.
This is why I think as shooters we generally think of accuracy the wrong way. Instead of discussing group size, it's better to choose some reference size (say, half MOA), and then stated the confidence value. What percentage of the time can your rifle/load/shooter combo place a POI within a half MOA of the desired POA?
I have a bunch of "half-MOA" rifles if that is the criterion. Maybe you meant "within .25 moa of the POA?"
However, you (and others) raise on good point on how to define a "half-MOA rifle." Because of the vagaries of ammo, wind/environment, rest, scope repeatability and shooter, I would say if you can shoot several groups and get at least half of them to measure .5 MOA or less, you qualify.