Thread: Sub MOA rifles

Grayham Henry wrote a really really good article on this some 30ish years ago....breaking down the costs of manufacture...investment casting etc dropped price no end....like making a cresent spanner,then giving it a clean up Vs starting with block of metal and machining it down.....the upshot of article was just how little profit there was in a budget rifle and barrels are mass produced just like the other components....
back 30-40 years ago rifles WERENT bedded as a rule,heck my model 70 lightweight had a blob of hot glue type compound in stock and action slapped in and screwed up FROM FACTORY.
we have come a long way since then,but a budget rifle still costs a lot to produce...short cuts have to be taken somewhere.

its often been said the reason the trebly took off so fast as a professionals rifle was 3 fold....#1 they were small and light #2 you could carry lots of ammo #3 they were as a rule tack drivers where as most off the shelf bigger calibres were 2-4moa