Browning hells canyon or kimber mountain accent
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If you get the browning you get to put cool stickers all over your truck and fill your truck box with empty beer cans,,
Shot my Kimber Adirondack three shots at range and sold it, action had a rattle unless loaded that drove me nuts, and can you drop a round in those actions and chamber without stacking it down? Can't remember.
Betwen my Remington titaniums, savage lightweight and the Kimber, the Kimber was my least favourite and it went out the door, my Remington is lighter and my modded savage about the same weight as a Kimber. Both cheaper, get about 4 or 5 savages for price of a Kimber. Regret selling every tikka I ever owned. If Kimber made a titanium in that little action I'd give it another go,,
Shot my Kimber Adirondack three shots at range and sold it, action had a rattle unless loaded that drove me nuts, and can you drop a round in those actions and chamber without stacking it down? Can't remember.
Betwen my Remington titaniums, savage lightweight and the Kimber, the Kimber was my least favourite and it went out the door, my Remington is lighter and my modded savage about the same weight as a Kimber. Both cheaper, get about 4 or 5 savages for price of a Kimber. Regret selling every tikka I ever owned. If Kimber made a titanium in that little action I'd give it another go,,
What modifications did you do to get your Remington Ti down under the weight of an Adirondack? What did you do on the Savage?
OP mentioned they have heard "the magazine on the browning is not the friendliest for reloads". I have never had issues with reloads in an X-bolt. But, if anyone else has had a different experience, please pipe up. I actually find the Tikka T3 to be much pickier with reloads. The "trim-to" length has to be correct, or they won't chamber.
I have an xbolt hc in 6.5 creedmoor, I hand load for it. Using the eld-x and partitions I haven’t had any issues with the mag. Both shoot sub moa. I also bought my wife an xbolt hunter in .243 for a wedding present this fall. They both shoot and handle great. My only issue is the triggers. I bought the mcarbo spring kit which brought the pull weight down but it still felt sloppy so I threw in a timney. She doesn’t mind her trigger at all but I’m a quadriplegic and my hands don’t work great so I’m pickier than most with triggers.
Can you expand on these xbolt trigger issues. I have 3 xbolts and have adjusted all down to 3 lbs without issue. Is there something mechanically wrong with your factory trigger or were you not able to adjust it down low enough for your liking? I keep reading so many negatives about these browning triggers, what am I missing?
Read post #10 in this thread. If pull weight is all that matters to you may get lucky and drop a factory X-Bolt to 3lbs (most likely 3.5 even with a spring kit)
Perfectly adequate trigger for hunting but shameful for a modern rifle in this price range.
If you wish to address the creep or grit of a newer production X-Bolt you're screwed as the trigger pack is non-serviceable.
Timney addresses the ####ty X-Bolt trigger but you lose the ability to lock the bolt.
So many great things about the X-Bolt design but a rifle is only as good as it's trigger IMHO. Browning engineered a part specifically so the end-user can't service it and I take issue with that and will spend my money elsewhere.
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pete dobinson
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There's a lot of things I like about browning rifles, I have an A-bolt that I will never get rid of, for instance I like the 60 degree bolt lift and the tang safety but the trigger is too complicated imo. I replaced a spring to reduce the trigger weight and it's fine for hunting but it doesn't compare to a kimber trigger, a simple screw adjustment got my kimber trigger down to a little over 2 lbs.
Well guys, after more searching and handling of rifles I was dead set on a kimber and found a good deal on an Adirondack in .308. Picked it up today, mounted my scope and it weights 6lbs. Love the 18 inch barrel and since in Ontario it is mostly brush country I think the short barrel will serve me well. Longest shot I would probably see is moose hunting shooting across a pond maybe 200 yards. I was very close at buying the kimber hunter but I could not get over the integrated trigger guard. This will be my first rifle without a magazine as well so we will see if I like it, I’m going to try it soon chasing some coyotes. I think the .308 will serve me well also since I reload I have my pick of any bullet I want. Thank you everyone for all the information.
Bought the rem that way, old lone wolf stock is 12oz, thinnest countour barrel I’ve seen 7/08, built by a rep smith, came under 5lbs scoped with Leopoldo ultralight
Savage , had barrel chopped, took a cheap plastic stock, replaced pad with flip flop, cut stock shorter, drilled like the wood version, 5lbs2oz with aim point h2 mounted, great bush,truck, walking rifle
