I see what you are saying, and agree somewhat. The Savage rifles are accurate partly to a cost cutting design. Savage makes their bolts multi piece, so that the bolt head is more or less "floating" and thus it flexes so both locking lugs get contact. The slop actually accidentally makes for more accuracy on average. The Remington 700 action is basically a round tube. You cannot get any simpler than that. I've NEVER seen a 700 action that didn't require quite a bit of truing up or "blueprinting" before being consistent. My own personal preferred action is the Browning A-Bolt 2. It's far more advanced design, with several design features I consider to be greatly superior to the 700 action, and with the same attention, it'll shoot with any 700 or Savage, all other things being equal.