Few Rifles on the entire market offer the advanced technology in what is a very accurate and time tested action as the Browning X Bolt. Start with the attachment of the rifle scope to the rifle. The X Bolt is way ahead here! Next the three lug bolt design allows a more rapid and lower bolt lift to cycle the round into the chamber, yet miss banging into the scope itself. Fact is the lower bolt lift has a lot more advantage. Then add the way the cartridge itself gets handled from the polymer magazine and inserted into the chamber. The.X Bolt can use a shorter cartridge like the popular .223 and also easily handle longer rounds in the longer actions. All of this means riflescopes can be mounted lower to the barrel and more rigidly, and come in a wide range of calibers. Glass bedded Action, free floating barrels, etc. This high tech rifle could only achieve this price in a production rifle as opposed to custom. Then add the newest generation carbon weave stock, proprietary chamber to barrel lapping like on the X Bolt Pro! The Pro weighs in at just under 6 pounds with a 22 inch barrel! Add a couple of more inches for those cartridges requiring longer barrel length to reach their potential and you still have a rifle which can be carried up mountain slopes if the owner wants that. The checkering though could be deepened as many notice that a Winchester Model 70 checkering is deeper and grips the hand better and is also more attractive. Since FN owns both Winchester and Browning the checkering at the Browning plant could be upgraded although the stocks are checkered and fitted many miles apart in seoerate factories. Just how the checkering is applied in the two plants is not widely known. Both appear to be machine laser checkered. Some day, perhaps soon, Browning will add shorter lengths of pull to better fit youth, women, and older men in more styles and have evolved into a rifle line unmatched for descerning riflemen and women.
