A mate has had a couple of Weatherby featherweights and all have shot better than MOA, a couple of blokes I know with Rem mountain rifles shoot MOA. I would think that a thin barrel should shoot 3 into MOA with several loads. However I would expect them to place 5 shots into 1.5 to 2MOA.

Now to me a 3 shot group out of a thin barrel is quite acceptable after all you have that type of rifle to carry in steep country where you not likely to be bombarding a mob/herd of animals but 1 to 2 shots to put a single animal down. As this sort of country often presents long shots I believe the rifle needs to be a MOA or better, preferably better, performer. With todays technology and manufacturing techniques there is no reason a ultra light rifle can not do this IMHO.

I do not trust most equipment reports in most Shooting mags either.