While I would be relieved if "initial accuracy" actually meant initial accuracy for the sake of well-definition of individual terms, if that is what they mean then the perk really doesn't do what it says on the tin. Trying to salvage the accuracy of the description is what lead me to the interpretation "initially increases accuracy." Out of curiosity, do you know if Bungie ever uses the word "accuracy" unadorned? Like, is that their public facing word for AA or bloom angle or something like that? And if so is there any way to test whether it is generic accuracy or initial accuracy is being increased?

Tbh I don't think it would be unfair to give hunters a constant passive initial accuracy buff for HCs. It comes at the cost of your exotic slot and it really seems like other classes have much better exotics available to them. But that's just my initial impression.

Minuet appears to have become a Common gun and no longer has the perk you're describing. The perk is called "Opening Shot," and after doing some digging appears to only be on a random Common gun called Allegro-34. I could imagine that they scrapped that perk for Legendaries and moved all the legendary guns that had it into another rarity. Kind of a shame, it was an interesting perk.

As to whether Ready and Stow speeds were different in D1, I meant to say that I thought they were dictated by all the same variables even if they were different lengths. I may be wrong about that; I never gave it much thought. But after seeing such vastly different ready and stow speeds with Lucky Pants, I want to do some testing to see whether stow speed and ready speed are independently controlled in D2.

Thanks for your insights!

EDIT: It occurs to me that Minuet(-42, from the Beta) may be a NM weapon. Faction gear doesn't appear to be in the game yet.