IMHO Federal & Hornady are equal when it comes to factory accurracy. Both give fantastic performance once you find the load that shoots out of a particular rifle. I found overall qaulity control lacking in Winchester and Remington offerings. I want ammo to give me 3/4" groups @100 yds anything more is not acceptable. It's been my experience that while one box of W & R might give me that the next box can't. After putting alot of factory fodder thru a chrony I've found Federal and Hornady to have no significant F.P.S. difference from round to round and box to box while W&R might average as much as 150 F.P.S. difference in a box.