Don't confuse "ignorant" with "stupid" (which would be an insult). You are obviously ill informed/unaware/don't know about (ignorant) of the current state of ARs as to either price or accuracy.
Using your rifle and your handloads you may (or may not) be able to beat someone else who is using an AR, but that's less than useful information as a comparison of ARs to bolts.
Saying a nib 700 is more accurate than a nib AR is just silly. It would be very unusual to find a non-tac AR that didn't shoot sub moa out of the box, with 1/2 moa and better being pretty common with handloads. As has been pointed out, there are several AR manufacturers who guarantee 1/2 moa or better accuracy out of the box. I'm not aware of any factory bolt gun with that guarantee, are you?
Compare apples to apples, measuring the gun, not the shooter.
Take a nib 700, and a nib non-tactical AR (non-chromelined barrel and free float handguard).
Put each of them on a lead sled using identical ammo so you're testing the rifle and not the shooter.
My money would be on the AR every time.
Both AR and bolt require a decent barrel, but given that...
For a bolt gun to be accurate:
*The action has to be as stiff as possible
*The barrel/bore has to be true to the action
*The bolt has to lock up true to the action and the bore
*The stock has to be absolutely ridged and has to hold the action absolutely ridged within it.
Folks spend thousands of dollars having bolt guns reworked (accurized/blueprinted etc) so that all of the above is as true as possible.
You may notice that bolt gun accuracy centers around the action and it's relation to the other parts. In a bolt gun, the action is the heart of the rifle.
ARs are inherently accurate because of their design. There is no action in an AR!! The bolt locks directly to the barrel.
The stock doesn't matter, the barrel/receiver fit doesn't matter, the bolt/receiver fit doesn't matter, the upper/lower receiver fit doesn't matter.
In other words, almost all of the variables that can and do cause inaccuracy in an out of the box factory bolt gun are eliminated in the design of an AR.
CAN a bolt gun be made more accurate than an AR? Absolutely!! With an AR you can put in a good trigger and a custom barrel, and you are basically done. Whatever that got you is pretty much as good as it's going to get.
With a bolt gun you can spend thousands more on accurizing and wind up with a true bench rest gun. I own several 700s that are extremely accurate (now), but straight out of the box they wouldn't have matched ANY of my ARs.
As someone else pointed out, there ARE negatives to the AR platform, but inaccuracy isn't one of them.
