To meconsistently means on average or regularly or more than it doesn't. I would bet that if I hung a target @200and over time shot say a 100 rounds at it more than65-75 of them would go inside a half inch center to center or .784 outside dia.

I would agree on the compeitive shooting thing. Most of my guns shoot into 1.5 or so at 200 and that is what just set the new record at 1000yrds. 0.50 shooting at 200 wouldn't even compete or even start to. While I am suprised at how well it shoots I don't think it is at all competition good.

I know right now I lack the skill and the money to compete in any kind of bench rest competition. In the next 5 years or so I would like to get into silhouette shooting and see how I could compete and see what it would take to do so. I feel like I am driven enough to make myself good enough.

I know people knock them but you have to remember these are not just typical factory guns. They MSPR at $1789 and typically sell at stores for $1300 or so although I paid alot less for mine. They have a barrel made by krieger and a nice alu pillar bedded stock made by B&C.

What is funny is I didn't buy these to be great benchrest guns I bought them to be great hunting rifles. And they are great hunting guns, I wouldn't have any less confidence in them or think a bit less of them if the best they would do is 1.25 MOA. The hunting and shooting that I have done has showed me that that is all and then some that is needed to take game as far asanyone except an elite fewshould be shooting and by that I mean 400yrds.
I think alot of guys go to the shop and buy the latest super flat mag and put a huge scope on it and sight it in at 100yrds where their computer program tells them they should to be dead on at 400-500 yrds and go hunting without ever even shooting at those distances.

It may sound funny but I really don't like the trend of every hunter having to have big game hunting rifles that shoot .5MOAor better. It is just me personally but it drives me nuts whenguys spend all the time on the bench trying for the itty bitty groups and then they can't shoot a deer off hand at 50yrds or completly miss that deer or elk at 175yrds while leaning against a tree from the tree stand. A gun that shoots 1.5MOA is no less effective as one that shoots 0.0 MOA for big game hunting.

Although it may seem that way I hardly ever change my hunting loads to make them more accurate, I just change to bullets that I think will offer better terminal performance and sometimes better accuracy arrives along with it and I am not one to complain and I am not going to adjust them to shoot worse.

I shoot more than anything off hand and I felt like it payed off this antlerless when I downed my doe at just under 100yrds with it quartering at me. I just had about 2 seconds before the deer was gone it was in a very narrow window. One shot one kill off hand, I know not special but made me a little more confidend none the less.