Re: factory X custom
The TRG-42 is arguably one of the finest "factory" rifles that is commercially available right now. They are proven shooters if the "nutt behind the butt" is doing his/her part and the ammo used is of high commercial quality (FGMM, BH, Lapua, etc.) or handloads.
A "custom" rifle, built to your specs with the barrel (contour/profile, twist, length), stock, and other options specified as you want them for a specific purpose or purposes has the POTENTIAL to be a higher quality, more accurate, etc. rifle.
The highest quality built rifle in the world won't be any more or less accurate than a rack-grade Remington or Savage if the shooter isn't able to extract the most from the rifle.
I always get a kick out of guys that will drop $4-5k on a rifle and other $2k on mounts/rings/optics and wonder why they can't get it to shoot. Well, if they spent as much money on training, education and quality range time instead of expecting a $6-7k rifle platform to do all the work for them, they wouldn't have to ask the question.