Six months ago a buddy and I decided to buy semi-autos for deer hunting. We both own AR's but wanted sporter style rifles for hunting. After some consideration, I got thesynthetic Browning BAR short trac in .308, he bought a synthetic Benelli R-1 in .300 WSM. With my BAR shooting Hornady's 150 grain SST I get 1" to 1.5" groups which is what I expect with a hunting rifle shooting factory ammo. Sometimes he gets great groups, sometimes he gets 5-6" groups. That rifle is very finicky. One thing is for certain- his rifle's zero changes drastically when he takes it apart for cleaning. Just my $.02