most accurate military bolt action rifle

[mokin]

I've got a No.1 Mk.III SMLE and a Finnish M39 that can go head to head on most days depending on the loads. Just for fun...

Here's the SMLE. It's stamped 1918 and had a lot of love in it's day. Still a darn good shooter.

And here is a target...

The group in the green circle at the deer's head was done with handloads, off of a good sandbag rest at two hundred yards.

I was aiming for the heart/lung area.

 

[delrom418]

I've got several rifles I've shot in vintage military rifle matches, but the only one that's been able to win first place is a 1929 Mosin Nagant. Your milage may vary, but my vote is for the Mosin Nagant!

 

[Catpop]

Springfield 03 for me.

 

[R.W.Dale]

I have owned em all. Swedes to mosins, yogos to smle

Hands down the most consistently accurate was my pair of French MAS 36's

 

[Capybara]

Swiss K31
Swedish Mauser M96

Both of those consistently are the winners in the local long range milsurp/irons classes. Never Mosins, not even the Finns and rarely the Enfields. I have all of these rifles in my collection and I would vote K31 or M96 out of mine.

 

[bmwguy]

Top 3 in terms of accuracy (not in any particular order):

K-31
M39
Swedish Mauser m96