Any Remington I've ever fired would shoot 1 moa. The heavy barrel models will exceed that considerably. And, I ain't met the Savage that could stand in a Remington's shadow for either stock trigger or out of the box accuracy. I own both, prefer Remington. My Savage is more picky about bullet. Took a while to get it shooting decent, had to try some different recipes and bullet types. I settled upon 150 game kings and 160 nosler partitions with it. Anything else was terrible, even Barnes and Hornady bullets. In addition, a 700 action is SO, so much slicker than a Savage. The Savage feels like it's running on sand paper, the Remington on ball bearings. The 700s are more refined, better fitted, finished guns and just plain look better, and there's a reason Remington actions are used so much for custom bench rest guns.
The out of the box 700 trigger would do most folks, can be set really light and crisp. But, pure bench guys go to the aftermarket. Me, I'm a hunter, 3 lbs is about right. Got to be able to feel the sear with heavy winter gloves on. I'm easy to please, crisp 3 lbs is perfect. That's as low as my Savage trigger (old non-accutrigger) will go. The 700 will set much lighter.
I fired a 5 shot 3/4" group the other day with my soda straw thin M7 and I'm not particular when reloading, either. I dump powder with a volume measure, don't sort cases (assorted military brass), nor weight and cull bullets. If I wanted to, I'm sure I could shrink that by at least a factor of 100 percent. Here again, bear in mind we're talkin' 6.5 lb carbine here, not target rifle. A stiffer barrel will, of course, shoot better, though my rifle is a HUNTING rifle and 3/4 MOA is MORE than accurate enough. At two hundred yards, it's like which hair follicle do you wanna hit?
