JeffB, you must have had really bad luck with your Rugers. I' ve never seen one that would shoot out of 1.5 inches. My .338 will shoot under one inch at 100 for as long as you want to sit there and take the pounding. My son had a 25-06 Varmint that would shoot anything you could buy under 1/2 inch. Maybe it was your scope I' ve owned around 15 of them in the last 25 years.