I'm working on breaking in my new Savage Model 10 Predator Hunter. Should it be shooting tight groups (1" @ 100y) right out of the box or should I be expecting variability in POI for "X" number of rounds? I have fired 30 rounds off benchrest and feel like I am chasing holes with turret clicks. Shot one nice tight group then tried to immediately duplicate and pattern seemed to move about an inch and spread.

Its a 243 so is about a buck a shot. Should I jut plan on buying a few more boxes of cheap stuff and not get too wound up during the first few boxes? Right now I'm playing that game where I keep asking Is it the scope? Is it the gun? Is it the cheap ammo? is it the benchrest? Is it me? Over and over and over.