RE: Is this normal?
I don't know if I made it clear or not, but there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with hunting a 2" at 100yrds factory rifle, in fact, you're probably quite lucky to have found the load that does so in your rifle...base model factory hunting rifles aren't precision machines, some people expect a bare bones Remington 700 to shoot 1" groups at 600yrds with a 3-9x glass, it's just not going to happen, expecting a scoped rifle to give 2" groups at 100yrds isn't always fair either, but it's a good estimate of where they should be, factory, standard bbl rifles should give 2.5MOA or better from the factory.