Barrel channel has been opened up and stock has been stiffened. I don’t know if this one is ever going to be a shooter. I’ve got a buddy with a 6.5 Creedmoor that he can’t get to shoot either. Another buddy has a 6.5 Creedmoor identical to it and it shoots lights out. That’s the issue I have with lower end rifles. They are a crap-shoot.
All rifles can be a crap shoot, I've seen a few well known and very expressive rifles go back because they didn't shoot. My Abolt which was my favorite rifle at the time was a 1.5 moa gun no matter what I did, which was fine for me. After the barr led opened up and I swapped it to .375 Ruger it dropped closer to a .75moa rifle. Thousands of barrels made, and I got a so, so, one first time out.
From the American, and the Axis, my personal experience, is that anything over 1-1.5moa is unusual. That's also what I generally expect a factory Remington 700, Winchester, or Ruger 77. My last NEW 700 (till this action in just bought) was a 2moa rifle and had a few other more annoying issues, after getting someone with more skill than I to fix those, and recutting the chamber to 7mm STW, it started shooting like I expected it to.
Again, luck of the draw and I lost.....oddly enough both were 7mm Remington's, and my least accurate American (at 1-1.25moa) was also a 7mm Remington.
Anyways, my point is simply that YES you can buy guaranteed performance, but it's WAAAAAY up the cost ladder.
Heck even my buddies Ridgeline will only do 3 shots before it walks. Course it will stack all three of those into sub 1/2moa groups.