I have an old savage 110 , back in 94 I burned $100 on Win Fed and Rem 150s 165s 180s 200s. Best group was 6". A guy gave me about 100 lake city 42s bang 2" groups. With a hand load I get 5 touching 3 over lapping.
Premium bullets ? 10s of 1000s elk deer moose and bison/buffalo have been killed dead with in 50ft at way over 100 yards with bare and paper patched dead soft lead bullets and patched round balls. Go shoot the heck out of those cup and core bullets they've proably killed a mire 50-60,000 of the mentioned game. What ever did we shoot back in the 80s ?