"[MY] Mod 41 never once gave me an alibi." Hondo44.

I'll bet you weren't using Remington Target ammo. I used it all the time for practice, many years ago, in my long-barreled Master Gunsmith-tuned Mod 41 for practice. It was cheap yet reasonably accurate. But, boy, did it have a lot of FTF and FTE. I was shooting at only 15 to 25 yards, so maybe that's too short for poor primer and/or powder quality to show up as poor accuracy. Who knows?