The true answer is that many/most cannot achieve the true accuracy that their rifles are capable of.

One of the mates on here shoots comp as well as hunting..he wants his rifles to be shooting coke bottle lids and I`m sure he is horrified when I say "oh thats good enough" meaning on hearing me relating to say my 358NM shooting an inch left and 2 inches high @ a 100 as "good enough for me"

A two inch group for bush deer hunting is good enough for me,my rifles can be tuned far better especially when some have hand loads rolled for them but shooting over the bench for me is just plain fucking boring,true!

After all I am hunting a big solid animal with a 20 + square inch kill zone and a lot of the time its off the shoulder shooting or leaning on a tree.

Do i need to wring the 'extra' out of the rifle in this case? Nope!

I had a hind cold broadside @ 30 yards yesterday morning..a 225 Woodleigh Hydro waiting in the .358 NM, a rifle thats shooting as outlined above..she wouldnt have noticed anything. I squeezed down to leaving a flys weight on the trigger then decided that the recovery work involved was too hard for me.

The .220 Swift tuning? Well thats a different tale of course.