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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: archery288 on August 12, 2012, 09:20:53 AM

Title: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: archery288 on August 12, 2012, 09:20:53 AM: Just picked up a new toy here a couple weeks ago. Went with a Browning X-Bolt Hunter left handed in a 7mm WSM. Put a Leupold VX3-L on it and loaded up some 160gr Nosler Accubonds with 69gr of Hodgdon H1000. Thing is a tack driver! Ready to take down a bear and late season MT now. :drool:
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: SemperFidelis97 on August 12, 2012, 09:28:22 AM: Beautiful gun there I do like those accubonds as well out of my .270 wsm.
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Biggerhammer on August 12, 2012, 04:43:43 PM: Great cartridge!
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Post by: SkookumHntr on August 12, 2012, 04:51:31 PM: Sweet lookin rig!
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 12, 2012, 04:54:04 PM: Looks nice :tup:
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Bofire on August 13, 2012, 05:54:44 PM: Xbolt is far better than an Abolt in any cartridge.
Carl
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Post by: actionshooter on August 13, 2012, 09:16:55 PM: Awesome ballistics, makes no sense why this round isn't popular.
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Whitelightning on August 13, 2012, 09:52:36 PM: Nice rifle! I agree the round should be more popular. Brass is hard to come by.
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: archery288 on August 13, 2012, 11:46:31 PM: Quote from: Whitelightning on August 13, 2012, 09:52:36 PM
Nice rifle! I agree the round should be more popular. Brass is hard to come by.

It is a great round ballistically speaking, hence the reason I went with it. :chuckle: And yeah, brass is a bit tough to find for it. I snatched up the only bag at Cabela's after a couple trips to previous stores. Hand loading is a must on some cartridges.
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: The100Road on January 04, 2013, 05:43:01 PM: I have been looking for the 300 win mag LH medallion but have not been able to find one. I am able to pick up a Hunter in a 300 win mag LH. is the only difference the gloss and engraving? why did you go with the hunter instead of the medallion?
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Post by: marlin on January 04, 2013, 06:06:14 PM: Nice rifle!!
I have an X-bolt .30-06 and I love it!
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Post by: Taco280AI on January 04, 2013, 06:08:00 PM: What kind of groups are you getting? Smallest, average, biggest?
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: marlin on January 04, 2013, 06:13:56 PM: I havent shot it on a bench and measured groups.. I used the side of my truck bed for a rest and was getting less than an inch at 75-80yds.. It shoots tight groups no doubt about it, but I dont like to pay range fees
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: 762Armo on January 04, 2013, 07:04:11 PM: I have an X bolt in 7mm rem mag. Best grouping I got was about an inch and a half, but that's because of shooter not rifle. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Biggerhammer on January 04, 2013, 07:11:43 PM: I've really tossed around picking one up in a 7mm WSM/synthetic. I like the feel of the rifle but it was sitting next to a stack of Tikka's which were seriously stinking and beginning to give me a serious rash, the sort of rash a guy could get out behind the Rock Island Tavern there in Rock Island WA ;). Maybe I'll take a better look when they move them further from the riff raf. :tung:
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: splitshot on January 04, 2013, 07:37:23 PM: nhr(not hunting related). stopped in at the rock island bar one time on my way to somewhere and when i left i forgot where i was going. wound up sleeping in my truck by a little lake that had lots of mosquitos. lost much blood, i think, then went on my way. mike w
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Biggerhammer on January 04, 2013, 07:46:40 PM: Quote from: splitshot on January 04, 2013, 07:37:23 PM
nhr(not hunting related). stopped in at the rock island bar one time on my way to somewhere and when i left i forgot where i was going. wound up sleeping in my truck by a little lake that had lots of mosquitos. lost much blood, i think, then went on my way. mike w

Gotta love it! So there was some type of "Rash" involved. That's the Rock for ya. :tup:
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: gadwall on January 04, 2013, 08:31:15 PM: I have wanted a 7mm WSM since they came out. Let's see a target from your tack driver.

Gadwall
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: The100Road on January 04, 2013, 08:32:55 PM: So do any of you know all the differences between the Medallion and the hunter models? Is it just the gloss finish and the engraving?
Title: Re: Browning X-Bolt Hunter 7mm WSM
Post by: Jonathan_S on January 06, 2013, 02:12:57 PM: The X-Bolt Medallion in 300 WSM is an absolute tack-driver. The feel of the X-Bolt is unmatched in my experience.

Beautiful too.