Browning x bolt

deerelkalope · Mar 30, 2018

Anybody have any first hand experience with the x bolt? Was pretty set on getting another Tikka, but the Browning caught my eye. Can't find any online reviews that satisfied my curiosity. Let me know what you think, thanks.

257Tony · Mar 30, 2018

What are you wanting to know? I have a couple of the newer Hells Canyon versions. Advantages that I can see over a Tikka is longer mag length, and faster twist barrels.

nmwapiti · Mar 31, 2018

Best rifle I've ever owned. Switched from a Remington model 700 that I had nothing but problems with.
Had my x bolt sited in with 3 shots- it's dead nuts accurate.

Cactusbuck · Mar 31, 2018

Last year I was in the same situation. The Tikka is my favorite gun (338 Win Mag). We looked for another to buy my Dad but settled for the Browning X Bolt. It's a damn good shooting gun but heavier than the Tikka. The Tikka is still my favorite!

HuntinCorn · Mar 31, 2018

I have a Browning XBolt also in a 300 Mag, with the carbon fiber look and I love it. I also have 2 Tikka's, one is a 30.06 and the other is a 7mm Mag. I love both of them too. What I love best about the Tikka is the butter smooth action and how light they are, but they do kick more. I had Mercury tubes put in both of them and now there is a lot less recoil.

wapitiman · Apr 1, 2018

I love my x-bolt... shoots amazing. Never played with Tikka though.

DBLung · Apr 1, 2018

I own both. Tikka T3-lite .223 and X-Bolt hunter 300WSM. I've shot the 1500 rounds or so through the tikka (rabbit hunting and every day predator hunting on the farm). The Magazine is worn out and doesn't close properly anymore. Everything else is flawless. The X-bolt has never let me down. I shoot my own reloads through it, and it shoots .338 patterns. Never adjusted anything. Both rifles have scopes that are worth twice as much as the rifle itself. To me the scope makes a good rifle.

deerelkalope · Apr 1, 2018

Thanks for the info guys. I've never owned a Browning, they look like very good quality rifles. I may buy myself one for my 60th birthday present?.

elkassassin · Apr 1, 2018

I Will NEVER EVER Buy another F'N Browning!

It Ain't Easy being Me!

Elkslayer2015 · Apr 2, 2018

I have a browning 7mm wsm A bolt I bought it when they first came out I love it never has let me down I've killed a lot of elk with it only a couple of deer just because I mainly bow hunt deer
I also have a browning 223 x bolt and I love this gun for coyote very accurate
My wife has the 270 WSM X bolt she loves it if I had to do it over again I would get the 270 just because it's my favorite caliber.

sagebrush · Apr 3, 2018

I bought an X-Bolt in .338. Liked it so much, I bought another in 7MM RM. I also own a bunch of A-Bolts, so I expected flawless performance from my X-Bolts and I wasn't disappointed.

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ELKOHOLIC · Apr 5, 2018

Let's here your story Bessy!

1911 · Apr 5, 2018

>Let's here your story Bessy!

He shoots a 30 40 Kraig. It's a long distance machine with core lokts

elkassassin · Apr 5, 2018

OK!

I've Got/Had Good & Bad with Browning!

Got an Older Browning that's as Good A Gun as You Could Ask for!

Got An A-Bort that is the Biggest Piece of Trash ever Built!

It's Never shot the Same Place Twice in it's Life & I Don't Care what Ammo You're Using!

It has a Habit of not Picking up the Bullet & Chambering the Bullet!

(((Cost Me a Buck & Not a PISSCUTTER Neither!)))

Sent back to Browning the first Time!

Comes back No Change!

I Took it to Barlows 2 different Times!

No Change!

They Blamed it on the Magazine!

I Bought another New Magazine!

No Change!

Piece of F'N TRASH!

The Only Gun I've Ever Had that I've Hated!

It Ain't Easy being Me!

1911 · Apr 5, 2018

>
>OK!
>
>I've Got/Had Good & Bad with
>Browning!
>
>Got an Older Browning that's as
>Good A Gun as You
>Could Ask for!
>
>Got An A-Bort that is the
>Biggest Piece of Trash ever
>Built!
>
>It's Never shot the Same Place
>Twice in it's Life &
>I Don't Care what Ammo
>You're Using!
>
>It has a Habit of not
>Picking up the Bullet &
>Chambering the Bullet!
>
>(((Cost Me a Buck & Not
>a PISSCUTTER Neither!)))
>
>Sent back to Browning the first
>Time!
>
>Comes back No Change!
>
>I Took it to Barlows 2
>different Times!
>
>No Change!
>
>They Blamed it on the Magazine!
>
>
>I Bought another New Magazine!
>
>No Change!
>
>Piece of F'N TRASH!
>
>The Only Gun I've Ever Had
>that I've Hated!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>It Ain't Easy being Me!

There?s the problem. Magazine. Buy a real bolt action next time and put in for the Wyoming special ya tightas.s.

elkassassin · Apr 5, 2018

>>
>>OK!
>>
>>I've Got/Had Good & Bad with
>>Browning!
>>
>>Got an Older Browning that's as
>>Good A Gun as You
>>Could Ask for!
>>
>>Got An A-Bort that is the
>>Biggest Piece of Trash ever
>>Built!
>>
>>It's Never shot the Same Place
>>Twice in it's Life &
>>I Don't Care what Ammo
>>You're Using!
>>
>>It has a Habit of not
>>Picking up the Bullet &
>>Chambering the Bullet!
>>
>>(((Cost Me a Buck & Not
>>a PISSCUTTER Neither!)))
>>
>>Sent back to Browning the first
>>Time!
>>
>>Comes back No Change!
>>
>>I Took it to Barlows 2
>>different Times!
>>
>>No Change!
>>
>>They Blamed it on the Magazine!
>>
>>
>>I Bought another New Magazine!
>>
>>No Change!
>>
>>Piece of F'N TRASH!
>>
>>The Only Gun I've Ever Had
>>that I've Hated!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>It Ain't Easy being Me!

>
>
>There?s the problem. Magazine.
>Buy a real bolt action
>next time and put in
>for the Wyoming special ya
>tightas.s.
>
>

My other Guns are REAL!

It Ain't Easy being Me!