If you want an accurate gun out of the box, buy a savage. My advice is buy a pawnshop beeter Rem 700 and take it to Ron at Benchark Barrels in Silvana. The barrel and install will run you about $500, but it will be the most accurate rifle you have ever seen. My 300 win mag shoots under 1/4 minute out to about 700 yards and under 1/2 minute out to 1000 yards
Benchmark Barrels 360-652-2594
Calculating Minute of Angle
The angle of an arc is expressed in number of degrees. There are 360 degrees of arc to a full circle. Each degree consists of 60 minutes of arc. The distance covered by the measure of arc is relative to the circumference (total distance around the circle) it is contained within. Knowing the radius (distance to center of circle) circumference is easily calculated by using the constant pi . The ratio (represented by pi ) of circumference is constant to diameter (radius x 2) regardless of circle size. The precise value of pi is so far unknown to man but is normally resolved to 3.1416 or 3.141 for our purposes.
Suppose a circle with a 6 inch radius. Circumference can be calculated as:
circumference = (radius x 2) x pi
circumference = (6 x 2) x 3.1416
circumference = 12 x 3.1416
circumference = 37.6992 inches
The distance covered by 1 degree of angle (37.6992 / 360 or, circumference divided by 360 degrees) is 0.1047 inch at 6 inches from center of circle.
And, 1 minute of angle represents (0.1047 / 60 or, 1 degree divided by 60 minutes) 0.001745 inch at 6 inches from center of circle.
Knowing what MOA represents allows us to calculate its value to any distance.
Six inches (the radius of the above example) is 1/600th of 100 yards: (100 yards x 36 inches) / 6 inches = 600
Therefore, the value of MOA at 100 yards is 1.047 inches (0.001745 x 600 = 1.047)
At 50 yards 1/2 the 100 yard value; 70% @ 70 yards; twice @ 200 yards; 6 times @ 600 yards; and so on.
So, the difference between thinking in inches as opposed to MOA is 0.47 inch @ 1000 yards.
In June 2004, this 6 Dasher in a "Baby Tracker" stock set a new 6-target NBRSA 1000-yard Light Gun Aggregate world record of 6.125". Richard writes:
"Check this out! I hope you can read the awards in the photo. This took place at Byers, CO on June 26 & 27. My 11-lb Baby Tracker-stocked Nesika 'J' in 6 Dasher shooting 106 Clinch Rivers took:
Light Gun Group, six-target Agg---6.125"
Light Gun Score, six-target Agg---276
Light Gun High single-target Score---50-2X
Light Gun Small single target group---4.000"
Heavy Gun Small single target Group---7.032"
The 6.125" six target light gun agg is a new NBRSA World Record beating the one set by Tim North last September at Byers, CO also riding a Shehane 1000L Tracker.
Obviously not stockers