with the older ones, that's close to being true. They supposedly changed something about the barrel's gas block or something and now they are like 2 MOA
Ya know, I don't think I'd care if it shoots well or not, I wouldn't shoot it I don't think. That base looks like it was welded on. That's a lot of heat to apply to the action! If it is a weld, wonder how much it may have effected the hardness of the action?
the stress is all on the barrel, bro. It does look like a crappy weld job, tho, so god knows what might have been done. A real smith would have used heat control jell in the chamber and slathered around the weld site, etc, and a Tig machine very small beads, very short ones, let it cook, use an air nozzle to speed up the cooling, etc. that looks like some Klutz with an arc welder crapped all over it.
