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I bought one of Mark Grahams's Romanian builds and am very impressed with the quality of his workmanship and attention to detail. I also own a new Arsenal, Inc Bulgarian and took them down to the range today to see how they compare against other as shooters. The Arsenal rifle was capable of holding a 1" group from a firm rest at 25yds. The Romanian rifle has a much better trigger but was still only capable of a 1.25" best of three target shot, the other two were over 1.5-2.0". I fired them both at the same NRA 25 yard pistol target at 50 yards and the Bulgarian rifle was capable of groupings around 3", the Romanian best around 5". Firing 250 rnds from both rifles at 50yds, showed that the Bulgarian rifle can keep nearly all rounds in the 9-10 ring, the Romy...well, it has a better trigger, but doesn't do nearly as well with shots out into 7 and 8 ring. Understandably this is still fairly good from this type of weapon IMHOl. My M1A will nearly put them all in the same ragged hole at 50 yds, produces 1" groups at 100 yds with open sights. I forgot to add that both rifles functioned flawlessly through my 6 hour session.