My Sako is Stainless Synthetic. I guess the way I look at it is you owe it to the animal you hunt to kill it as quick and humane as possible. So if you are grouping at 2" and shooting out to 300+ yards that is 6"+. If you could get that group to 1" or less why wouldn't you?? The would be a lot more dead animals than wounded ones. Can eat what you don't kill.