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Now I'm not trying to be contrary but maybe you wasted a lot of time and effort tuning and tweaking when you should have just made sure the forends were properly fitted to MoD specification. I'm firmly in the camp of: "if it's good enough for a sniper rifle, it's good enough for me". I was only shooting 5 shot groups as instructed by Criterion and I did have flyers but I'm convinced this old rifle with it's new, properly broken in sample barrel WILL shoot 1 MOA with the match load concocted by my friend in Florida and assembled by myself. It'll definitely shoot 2 MOA with Portuguese FNM 1971 Mk.7z ball which is some of the best late manufacture surplus .303 I've ever found. I'll be glad to send you the targets just exactly as I did to Criterion if you don't believe me. Got them right here on my IMac. Send me an email to bdlltd@bellsouth.net and I'll scan them to you. My bench can be seen on Criterion's Facebook page along with my poor old cobbled up Savage if anyone's interested. Facts are stranger than science!