I usually make my own rifles using Mauser or M-70 actions with Shilen or Douglas XX barrels and Bastogne walnut. Most shoot very good groups and some occasio nally don't. But to say any of these custom rifles shoot 1 MOA is stretching the truth.

Look around at custom smiths and look them in the eye and ask.....If you build me a gun, will you guarantee me 1" groups at 100 yards?

Tell them that you want those groups to be with hunting style bullets.....specify partitions or any bonded bullet and not match kings or A-Max bullets. Just watch them qualify themselves.....make excuses and cloud the issue with circumstances and in the end never make a committment.

I assure you that having a custom gun built does not guarantee 1" groups.

I'm still of the opinion that the bulk of shooters posting on this and other forums stating that they shoot 1" groups will not be able to prove it at a shooting range in front of others. As for the ones that shoot 1/2" groups.....it goes like this..." well, I don't know what happened....this thing normally shoots little tiny groups" as they're looking at their last effort.....a 2 1/2" string.