It's the ammo dude, believe me.
And Fortier doesn't dicker around with 3 hole groups. He plays with 5 hole groups and sometimes goes all the way to ten to get a more accurate result.
Any rifle can reach there.
A good article talked about making the FAL series rifles near sub-MOA.
One noted author found the holy grail for the FN-FAL series rifles including the Inch Commonwealth series and that his rifles including those he worked with was completely happy and in the bliss with Hornady TAP 150 grain ammo.
Author swore all day on it and his results ranged from .50 to 1 MOA using the TAP ammo.
Seriously...the Dragunov is pretty capable...it's just the ammo.
Like any weapons platform.....your mileage may vary but in the end....ammo brings consistency no matter what and from various sources and one notable gun writer...the Russian Match ammo MADE, researched and developed specifically for the Dragunov is the missing link to making it an true sniper rifle.
7N1 sniper load and the 148 grain LPS ball. The 7N1 is a 152 grain FMJBT designed specifically for use in the SVD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x54mmR
Here;s his article on the subject
http://www.snipersparadise.com/equip...SniperLoad.htm
Here is the Russian criteria for groupsize...The Russian LVE cartridge factory states the accuracy of their common cartridge (57-N-323C) to be less than 24 cm at 300 m (0.8 mrad; 2.8 MOA) at R100[5] - "R100" being the groupsize of three series of 20 shots at 300 m. Their sniper cartridges (7N1, 7N14) are stated less than 8 cm at 300 m (0.3 mrad; 0.9 MOA) at R100
Like I said..it's not 3 shot...1 shot or some mickey mouse bench trick.
http://www.lveplant.ru/boevpat_eng.htm
Here's the ammo plant that makes it. Last I heard...it can be purchased quite easily in Europe and Finland. The one I have for my collection was purchased from a gentleman in Sweden.
Used it on a Romanian PSL belonging to a friend and it was quite simply.....amazing.....well worth the 40 bucks I spent to get it here from overseas....