My dad bought his 30-06 version brand new in 1988 when he was 48. He is still hunting with it today! (I use his Marlin 30-30 which he "retired.") He has taken many white tail, several mule deer and two or three elk. He dropped a mule deer in Colorado at a distance of around 400-450 yards. It is an excellent rifle that has served him well most of his life.
Browning A bolt is in reality a sub MOA rifle , the scopes at the time did not allow high precision . Recently got an A bolt in 7 rem . I’m very impressed with the accuracy of an almost 40 year old production rifle .
@@nickolashunt6362 I paid ridiculous money for it , it just doesn’t look tacticool ,that’s why you can find them cheap , but not for long . By the way , I also chose an older Pentax scope.
It is a wonderfully light rifle. My dad mounted a 2 by 7 Nikon scope on it. Nice and small and sleek....good for brush hunting and yet with 7 power enough for quarter mile shots too.
They have the bolt lock, so you dont knock open and lose a round. Good feature really. Not a fan of rifles that dont lock up on safe. The x-bolts have a button you push that allows to open on safe I believe.
Beautiful spec brother!! If I may ask, despite not having iron sights, is the scope mount/scope at a natural offset, as one would use to have access to both scope/sights. Looks to be some kind of dovetail or tipoff ring mounts. What are they?
The browning 30-06 w/ the A frame, in the medallion edition makes me think of my grandpa… This guy was a man amongst men, a proud ww2 vet, a real deal cowboy and an AVID hunter… with his browning 30-06 at 80 years old he killed his 80th buck… We lived in the city and couldn’t hunt as much as he did, but he was still going to the deer lease and hunting alone until he was 85 or 86 lol… He blamed all his hunting buddies for dying or getting too old too fast lol…killed 83 bucks before he stopped hunting at around 85-86 years old..I’m sure he killed 100+ hogs over the years, he hunted mountain lions from horseback in Mexico, rams, exotics, bobcats coyotes, snakes… He even had sliding windows in the dining room at his house looking out at his backyard and his pecan trees… he would slide those windows open and shoot squirrels that were stealing his pecans from the dining room table…and he kept a poster with squirrel stickers to tally how many lol… I swear to god I can’t make this up lol… The funny thing is that he owned his own exterminating company.. So he’d go to work all week killing critters then head to the deer lease on the weekends to kill more critters lol… If you had 4 legs and weren’t a dog seeing my grandpa was like seeing the reaper lol…
I have my own browning 30-06 A frame medallion w/ a Leopoldo 4x12 scope… my grandpa graduated me from a .243 to that rifle which was the same one he used most of the time when I was about 10-11 years old… A 30-06 is a lot of gun for a 10 year old but not only that we only shot his hand loads that had significantly more grains than the average store bought rounds… my first two years with the 30-06 I thought my shoulder was gonna fly off every time I shot it lol… I grew into it around 12 and it’s been my main hunting rifle for the last 25 years… Love the look and feel of it… from 100-150 yards it’s not even fair how accurate it is… 200 is no issue either… I don’t think I’ve ever shot much beyond 200 but I bet if I tried at the range within a couple shots I could zero it in at 300… just a great gun… I’ve had it 25 years and I’ll have it till they put me in the dirt… I have several rifles but this one still holds it own with any of them and is still my fav deer hunting rifle that i own…
I have a A bolt in 30/06 I have taken 2 Elk with it and one 10 point buck with it everything I have shot at with has been a one shot kill it has a really crisp trigger the best trigger I have on any gun I own.
I have the same rifle and caliber. I am working on some reloads. It is an inch at 100 yds with Sierra GK 165gr and IMR4350. You do not need to pull the trigger to release the bolt.
Try vitavouri powder, possible to cut that in half. I also used federal magnum rifle primers. 165 grain sierra's also had my trigger worked on by a competent professional gunsmith safely set 2 lb trigger pull. These guns are amazing.
I have the exact same A bolt as you do. Very impressed with mine, it does best with the 165 to 168 grain bullets. I bought an A bolt 3 in 243 win, and I hate the gun. Nothing but problems. It fired once upon closing the bolt, it had a case stick in the chamber, just a real loser compared to the original A bolt.
A bolt and a bolt 2 have different bolt designs. The a bolt looks a little like a weatherby mark 5 bolt the a bolt 2 is smooth with out the grooves. Almost like a metal plate you can in grave
I have 2 of these A-bolt rifles in the composite stalker model one 30/06 and a 325 WSM both are very accurate i make my own reloads and both have taken elk and mule deer wont ever sell theme
