accubond
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-15 AT 06:22PM (MST)[p]Gentleman,
I have a real dilemma here. I have been doing the shoot clean, shoot clean break-in method on a brand new Browning X-bolt chambered in 270 Win. On shot number 10 I noticed the bolt release button (unique to the X-bolt) never came back up and I couldn't put the gun back on safe? After getting the gun back home I dry fired it once and everything went back to normal. Well, shot number 11 produced the same result but this time it wasn't nearly as easy to "fix". There were several times where I would cycle the bolt and the gun would fire upon closing the bolt! Finally, I got it to where I could get the gun back on safety but instead of the bolt release staying down when pushed I have to hold it down to run the bolt with the safety on? Browning says "remove all mounts and optics and send it in" but how do you ever trust a gun that has done this? I think, at a minimum I will take the gun to my trusted gunsmith and see what he comes up with but I just don't know what to do? Even selling the gun at this point (after I have my smith get it right again) would leave me a little uneasy. It would be hard for me to hand this rifle to my son on any future hunt. Please let me know your thoughts.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never has and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
I have a real dilemma here. I have been doing the shoot clean, shoot clean break-in method on a brand new Browning X-bolt chambered in 270 Win. On shot number 10 I noticed the bolt release button (unique to the X-bolt) never came back up and I couldn't put the gun back on safe? After getting the gun back home I dry fired it once and everything went back to normal. Well, shot number 11 produced the same result but this time it wasn't nearly as easy to "fix". There were several times where I would cycle the bolt and the gun would fire upon closing the bolt! Finally, I got it to where I could get the gun back on safety but instead of the bolt release staying down when pushed I have to hold it down to run the bolt with the safety on? Browning says "remove all mounts and optics and send it in" but how do you ever trust a gun that has done this? I think, at a minimum I will take the gun to my trusted gunsmith and see what he comes up with but I just don't know what to do? Even selling the gun at this point (after I have my smith get it right again) would leave me a little uneasy. It would be hard for me to hand this rifle to my son on any future hunt. Please let me know your thoughts.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never has and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson