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Ah, so good for horizontal aim, but what about the vertical based on bullet drop? If I found a 1.5 MOA 30-30 Marlin carbine, it still wouldn't be worth much at 600 yards. It would not "put all of its rounds in a 9" circle" if we're talking about bulls eye. I don't know a conventional rifle which would.
By which that definition you're using (a perfectly trajectory out to 600 yards), there is no rifle out there that could ever do that. Everything you need to compensate for range, hence the existence of come-up/windage tables.
The example, and point I was trying to make, was via known distance (and using the known come-up to compensate for bullet drop which I had omitted, my bad) you'd be able to put a bullet downrange with pretty good certainty in a given target size. It's this ability to hit a specific target size that would help determine if something is accurate enough for the purpose intended.
raindog also touched upon a good point of lethality of the round once it covers that distance. I imagine there's people that could lob (using extreme drop compensation) .22LR rounds out to 500 yds. What damage they'd do is probably limited and really reduce the effectiveness of the round for the purpose it's being used for.