Most accurate brand out of the box

[kis2]

like most people have said, i haven't owned or shot most of the rifles listed, and i've heard good things about most, so i will only comment on the one i have.

stock remington 700p with handloads = .5moa average. sometimes better, sometimes worse. always submoa at one hundred yards.

 

[Welding Rod]

I clicked "other" based on the thread title, as I was thinking of Rock River and other AR makers that put out rifles that are very accurate compared to the ones you have listed.

Then I read your post that you are limiting to bolt action.

 

[Wild Bunch]

My K31 with irons will easily outshoot any other bolt rifle (with irons) I've shot.....and that thing was $200.

 

[Glocked-N-Loaded]

The rifles themselves and the inherent attributes of them allow a great degree of accuracy out of most modern long rifles. It's more the indian than it is the arrow, you do your part and most will do theirs. I'm talking rifles only, not match ammo and user worked handloaded recipes.

 

[UnTainted]

Sako uses a proprietary barrel profile that seems to produce reliable accuracy. My groups at 100 are all less than 1" in a rest with a finnbear 30'06. I sighted the rifle in last season and then let it cool real well for a few hours, and then fired a sitting cold-bore shot at 100 yards, which produced this result. Needless to say this is a thing that happens every season. My bro's weatherby 300mag and my dad's CZ 300wm do the same thing.

 

[Captcurt]

I'll side with 918V. It is a crap shoot. I've owned winchester, savage, remington, cz and marlin. Some shoot and some don't. I have had 3 cz's that shot well but every one of them have problems with the magazines. None feed without minor adjustments.

My best shooters at the moment are a Rem. 700 tactical 308 and a Savage 10 Ultralite in 300 WSM. Both shoot 5 shot groups sub MOA all day long and did it right out of the box.

I must say that Savage has all of their ducks in a row and if I wanted a tack driver without doing a lot of tuning, that would be my pick.

 

[Picher]

Usually, even before I shoot a new rifle for the first time, I glass/pillar bed it free-float the barrel, and adjust (or stone & polish) the trigger.

That way, I don't waste time and ammo on a rifle that should shoot well. If it doesn't shoot after bedding, it's sold. My personal opinion, I wouldn't waste money on having a rifle blueprinted. The metalwork either shoots or it doesn't. I've never owned a centerfire that I couldn't make shoot very well, but several years ago, I tried to improve another guy's Ruger 77 varmint that shot 4-minute groups and only could get it down to 1 1/2". That's not good enough for a varmint rifle. (The new ones are said to shoot very nicely.)

 

[snakeman]

I had a tikka that shot softball size groups at best. I bought it brand new and tried 6 different loads through it and traded it off within the month. Biggest pile of junk I ever bought!

 

[Welding Rod]

I had a tikka that shot softball size groups at best. I bought it brand new and tried 6 different loads through it and traded it off within the month. Biggest pile of junk I ever bought!

I bought a new Tikka too after reading the hype, and hearing at the gunshops about how accurate they were supposed to be.

I was not impressed. If I am going to get ~1.5+ MOA, I might as well be shooting an American made gun.

So I traded it off for a Ruger Hawkeye that shot every bit as well.

But if I want small groups, I just shoot an AR.

 

[dubbleA]

I had a tikka that shot softball size groups at best. I bought it brand new and tried 6 different loads through it and traded it off within the month. Biggest pile of junk I ever bought!

DITTO
Yes, I had the same experience with a T3 270 WSM. It's long gone now.

 

[15guns]

Yeah Sako is great but there is currently a gun called a Noreen ULR in 338 that can shoot over 2,000 yards. Sakos 338 model 42 does like over 1700 yards out of the box but you have to buy a good scope for it. I chat with some guy online that has a sako model 41.

 

[Ky Larry]

I've had good luck with most rifles I've owned and had some real dogs that just wouldn't shoot. Some needed a little help like free floating the barrel, bedding, Timney trigger,etc. Some were beyond help. The Savages with the Accu-Trigger have been very impressive. My next rifle will probably be a Savage Weather Warrior in 7mm-08. I don't have a clue why I want this rifle. I don't deer hunt anymore and I have a CZ-550 in .30-06.

 

[dagger dog]

I had to vote Savage, 'cause I was lucky enough to get two that shoot under an inch at 100, straight off the shelf and untouched out of the box, only detail stripped and cleaned,a 12 FV .223 and a 40 Varmint Hunter 22 Hornet, both accutrigger models.

But I would like to give Ruger a kind word also, as I am the owner of a KM77VTMKII .308 Win. that's a shooter able to put them in an inch @100.

But with those three rifles it is extra ordinary 'cause I'm not that good of a shooter with very poor eye sight and have to use a scope and handloads to get those results.

 

[benzy2]

From the group listed, I would feel fairly good picking from any of them.

 

[Kawabuggy]

Most accurate rifle I've ever owned, or shot, is my Savage 12FV in .243. I recently bought another 12FV in .223 for my son. His is not broke in yet, but it is the second most accurate gun I've ever shot. I think in time they will be on-par with each other, and that is FAR ahead of any Remington, Winchester, or Browning that I have to date. My Browning A-bolts, and X-bolt would be second in out of the box accuracy.

My son's .223 with range brass, mixed head stamp, and using a powder drop instead of actually weighing the charges put 8 shots in a row in a group that a quarter would cover. This was at 100 yards, using a CHEAP Pentax scope, and I was not letting the barrel cool between shots-I was just ripping them as quickly as I could. At last count I own 7 Savages, and they represent the smallest number of any manufacturer in my collection. But they are all the most recent guns I have bought.

How do you think I voted?