wabi

I guess I have been extremely lucky most of the ML's that I have owned have been what I thought to be exceptionally accurate. The least accurate of all of them was a CVA Magbolt 50 cal. It is gone been gone for several years.

Rating the sidehamers that I have... or had... (all open sights)

Lyman 54 cal Trade Rifle - sabot shooter -> very good to excellent
TC Hawkens - sabot shooter -> excellent conicals -> excellent
TC Renegades (both 54's and 50's several of em) sabot shooter -> excellent and conicals - excellent
TC Renegades (with GM-LRH Barrels) sabot shooter & conical -> outstanding

Rating In-lines - all 50 cals (all scoped)

Already mentioned the CVA magbolt

Remington 700ML (2 of them) - sabots -> excellent to outstanding
Austin & Halleck 320SN (2 0f them) - sabots -> excellent
Omega (SS) sabots -> excellent to outstanding
White U-mag - sabots -> Wow! outstanding & buy everybodies account conicals -> another wow!
Knight Extreme MHC SS Barrel- sabots -> yet to be dertirmined(and I am not sure if I will shoot conicals from it yet or not)

While i really like all the inlines - for some reason when the weather gets tough or I am after elk in difficult country I always seem to migrate back to the 26" Remington as "old faithful". Mentally I know the White will do the job, and I am hoping the Knight will replace the Remington as the "trusted" one, and yet i would have know trouble if I needed to depend on the Omega. The A&H's while they are great shooters - I do not enjoy carring one of them around all in the woods all day (long and heavy - balance seems off to me).

Hope this makes sense - it does not to my wife - but to me it does...