The only rifles that you are going to find remotely close to that price range that will guarantee 1moa is the Weatherby Vanguard sub moa rifle and a Tikka.

Outside of that you are looking at paying $2000+.

My vote goes to the vanguard Sub moa.

I am not a fan of tikkas at all. I do not like the one size fits all action length with plastic spacers in the magazine to accomodate different length cartridges. But this cuts costs and makes it more affordable. I do not like the fact that the receiver does not have a recoil lug. I am not a huge fan of cast receivers either.

I like a short action cartridge to be chambered in a true short action rifle. I like receivers machined from solid steel rather than cast. I like my guns receiver to have its own recoil lug instead of a slot cut in the bottom for a piece of metal to slip into it.


AS far as caliber goes I would look real hard at the regular .270 Win and the .270 WSM. Either one of these two cartridges have a very flat trajectory and are extremely potent deer cartridges. They also do very well on larger game such as moose and elk.