I am considering trading my Savage MSR-10 .308 in for a nice used bolt action and wanted to see if anyone had advice here. The idea is if I had a medium priced bolt gun might have a more natural feel to it and shoot tighter groups, thus allowing me to take longer shots.
My MSR-10 shoots about 1moa when I use 165-180gr Accubonds for reference. So for a bolt gun I would want to be able to shoot .75moa or so but I do not know how much more accurate I can count on a factory bolt shooting.
A possible risk I see to trading my MSR-10 is I might get a bolt gun that does not shoot sub-moa, or is simply as accurate as my MSR-10 was to begin with. If I keep the MSR-10, I know I have a pretty good pig/deer gun.
An alternative to switching would be to look at improving my form with the AR-10 platform and perhaps getting a workable range of 300yds when hunting. Right now I am only comfortable taking shots out to 200yds, which is plenty to hunt but there are some blinds where I have a shot out to 300-350yds where I hunt.
My MSR-10 shoots about 1moa when I use 165-180gr Accubonds for reference. So for a bolt gun I would want to be able to shoot .75moa or so but I do not know how much more accurate I can count on a factory bolt shooting.
A possible risk I see to trading my MSR-10 is I might get a bolt gun that does not shoot sub-moa, or is simply as accurate as my MSR-10 was to begin with. If I keep the MSR-10, I know I have a pretty good pig/deer gun.
An alternative to switching would be to look at improving my form with the AR-10 platform and perhaps getting a workable range of 300yds when hunting. Right now I am only comfortable taking shots out to 200yds, which is plenty to hunt but there are some blinds where I have a shot out to 300-350yds where I hunt.