If you can't buy accuracy then why do people spend many thousands of dollars on "Annies". Why not just buy the cheapest Savage .22 one can find. Obviously there is a baseline of quality and precision.
A lot of people do buy expensive rifles with the belief or hope that this in itself will solve accuracy problems. But that's an utter fallacy -- a complete misunderstanding -- of how accuracy is produced. In the most basic sense, .22LR accuracy is a product of two components -- the barrel and the ammo.
Like virtually everything else, not all rifles are created equal. The point is that a\ "good" rifles, those with good barrels (bores) and good chambers, can't make poor or mediocre ammo do something that it can't do. They can only make poor or mediocre ammo shoot as well as it can. They can make suitable ammo perform very well indeed.
Equally, poor or mediocre barrels can only do so well. Poor or mediocre ammo will produce poor or mediocre results. While they can produce random acts accuracy, the limitations of the barrel means they can't consistently cause good ammo to perform especially well.
Without both componenets -- a good barrel
and suitable ammo -- no rifles can perform consistently well.
Unfortunately, too many shooters believe that it's possible to find a suitable "brand" of ammo that will shoot well. That's not how ammo works. Whenever a shooter says something like "my rifle likes SK _____________ but not SK ____________" or "my rifle doesn't like Midas + but loves Center X" he likely misunderstands completely how to find good ammo. The same applies when someone says Brand X will shoot well in that rifle.
