I never saw "pretty" make a better shooting rifle Mr. Bronko. As was stated way back up there somewhere, 90% of rifles out there will out shoot 90% of the shooters wielding them. I am nowhere near the shooter the old man was and Alex, my little sister, is probably 20-30% better than me as well. But there have been times with several of the old mans builds I could eat up a bull at 200 yards off the bench. But he taught all of us reloading before he really had us on triggers extensively. His motto was "a great shooter always knows what the hell he is shooting inside and out". Other than 9mm ammo, I haven't bought factory ammo in many years and even the few occasions I did, I only did so to have some fire formed brass and didnt feel like doing COW fills to make fireformed.