Our expectations of accuracy have gone up significantly over time. Our grandparents great grandparents depending your age would have been happy with 4 moa or less in a hunting rifle. Now we moan about anything over 1 shot off a bench under ideal circumstances.
Crowning will likely give a significant improvement it did on a 7x57 sporterised Spanish mauser I used to own that had a decidedly below par barrel.
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