Nothing in my eyes. But I want to shoot 500 yards with it and my buddies are saying mine want do it because it's a pump and not a bolt action
I think part of it also stems for the possible shifting of zero, that folks perceive, as it is possible, with
shotgunsb with take off barrels, so they assume (and we all know what that breaks down to) that the same goes with rifles.
you have taken the time to match the round with the rifle, which most folks don't do, which makes a huge difference in accuracy and performance (Nice group BTW.) For the cost to get a BA with that kind of accuracy, and consistency, you would have to drop a decent ***** fo money on it, and to go out past 500 yards, on optics as well.
Personally, I see no reason, as long as you have a good rest to set it on, that you couldn't push 500 yards out of the rifle you already have, with the ammunition you are using, and get the same results as you are getting now.
in my eccletic gathering of firearms there are a Remington 740, 760, and a 750 Woodsmaster, in .30-06 for the 740 and 760, and .243 on the 750. The first two like a 180 grain bullet for the best performance, and the .243 LOVES 90 grain rounds.
And all 3 will shoot MOA out at 500 yards, when I do my part, and on a REALLY Great day, sub MOA, so it can be done with rifles other than BA.
Average on my groups is usually between 1.25 to 1.5 MOA, with all three rifles. Given that the 760 is mainly a hunting rifle, I tend to think in Minute of Deer instead of MOA. The 740 and 750, may becone hunting rifles again (they were in NY), as the state has just started allowing semis for small game, so the 750 will soon be a groundhog and coyote rifle again, but the 740 is still just a range toy.
It's kind of like my friends who have ARs and AKs giving me s*** about the fact that I us M1 platform rifles and carbines. No, it's not the latest and greatest, but when you can use it as well, or better than they can their "tacticool, decked out" MSRs, it tends to shut the critics down, quick.
Show them up at the range with your "Inaccurate" PA rifle a few times, and they will learn.