what's your most accurate deer rifle with factory loads
 

Title says it. I like to see when some $500-$700 guns are more accurate than higher end models!

Ruger M77 chambered in .280 Rem

.243 Sako Forester--- However, it was just a little bit more than your price range! That's 10 shots with Sierra Game Kings. I now reload with Hornady 100 grain BTSPs with the same results and a lot cheaper.

Off the top of my head, I'd say it's pretty even between two Winchester M70s I own, both in .270. Each has shown excellent accuracy with Plain Jane Winchester ammo. 150gr PPs for the 1960 Featherweight (4X scope) and 130gr PPs for my new M70 JOC tribute (2-7 scope). Both have given groups of 3/8" or better with that ammo. Doubt I will search any further for new loads.

However, as already mentioned above, neither one is a "bargain" priced rifle.

Not my most accurate but most impressive is my Savage 220f.

Sub MOA from a shotgun.

***That is more than impressive!!!

Yeah, It is a game changer in a shotgun only state.

Even more impressive it seems that its not just a case of me getting a good one. These guns are producing sub moa results consistently.

The only centerfire I have owned since 1980...

A Ruger M-77 in .243 with 100gr CoreLokts...

***Look out for the chap with only one gun, LOL!

My Weatherby Mark V Ultralight 280 Rem is the best out of the box rifle I've ever seen, but it doesn't qualify here.
What does qualify is my Rem Model 7 in 7/08.
That little gem shoots just about anything into nice little groups.
It particularly likes my handload of 145 grain GrandSlams and 49.5 grains of RL19.

140 grain factory CoreLokts shoot almost as good.

Remington 700BDL with Winchester 120 grain PEPs. But that's the only ammo it shoots well. It shoots them into one hole at 100 yards. Everything else it shoots terrible.

I also have a Savage in 308 Win that shoots great.

My 300 Weatherby shoot under an inch at 100 yards with handloads. I have not shot a factory load out of that gun in 13 years. For $75 a box, I just can't do it. :D

Are you talking 25/06 and WW 120 grain PEP?
I used that load in a Ruger 77 bull barrel back in the late 70s early 80s on antelope, deer, coyotes, etc.
Awesome accuracy. Deadly terminal performance.
Great bullet.

I am not much of a bench shooter but I have a Savage 110 in 25/06 that put the last 5 shots touching in a 1 inch bulls eye at 100 yards on its first box of Federal Premium 117 grain. I figured that was good enough for government work so I quit sighting it in at 100 and moved back to 200, lined up the BDC and it put a hole in the same 1 inch Bull at 200 yards. This was off a concrete bench, out of a vice, calm wind, and 70 degrees at sea level but the rifle shoots better than I do and keeps meat on the table. It’s a Nikon Pro Staff 4x12x50 on top by the way, not an expensive combination but a killin machine.

Sorry. Yes, .25-06.

Also have a Sako 30-06 that will drive tacks with core-lokts.

That would be my K31


3 shots at 100 yd. Each square is an inch.

only factory loads I have shot in 25 years are 223, and rimfire, so no comment.
RR

I think about every rifle I have shoots better than I can.

H&r .444, Rem 700 223, Savage 10 308, savage bmag .17 wsm, ruger 10/22, savage 64 .22 , browning BL-22

They all seem to be dead on if I do my part. I guess Ive never really viced them down to see which ones are the most accurate. I worry more about what I'm doing right/wrong.

Seems like even the budget rifles these days shoot sub moa if the shooter does their part.

For me it has been my Remington 700 BDL Deluxe in 270 with Core Lokt 130 gr.

Most accurate rifle is my dad's weatherby Mark v in 257 wby. But we use handloads 117 grain sierria btsp. All my other rifles shoot good with factory ammo.

Rem 700 in .280. Using win balistic tip 140gr. I am grouping touched bullets at 300yds. I am working on building my own loads now no testing yet.

99 Savage .243 Remington Corlokts

For a good shooting cheap rifle don't look past the weatherby vanguard. They aren't the best looking but they do shoot extremely well.

This is true.

I have a Remington Model 700 Classic in 6.5x55 Swedish. It will group 5 shots pretty much in the same hole with Seller & Belloit 131 gr soft points, which are deadly on deer and pronghorn. It is so accurate with that factory load that I it is the only rifle I have that I don't even bother to handload it. Natchez had it on sale a few years ago for $8.00 a box and I laid in a big supply. I can keep it going for many years without bothering to buy dies.

Most accurate rifle I've ever owned and still own is my T/C encore .50cal 209 Magnum. Literally, it is scary accurate. 150gr. powder, .44cal Hornady hollow pointw/sabot. :hail: