Browning A Bolt??

I have an A-bolt II stalker in 22-250, no BOSS on mine and it can shoot!!

Near as I can tell some of the differences between A-bolts and A-bolt II's are a different bolt/ bolt sleeve system and I think maybe a slightly different trigger.

I really like the short bolt throw, escpecially with gloves on in the winter.

The only thing I have heard some people not hapy with is the way the box magazine hooks into the floor plate. They would prefer either a slide in slide out magazine or a floorplate with out the magazine attached to it.

The only thing about mine that is a little inconvnient is that it is hard to load it through the top bolt opening when loading the magazine. It is easier by far to open the magazine floor plate and load the magazine with it hanging open. Not a big deal thogh and with your model haveing a longer cartridge lenght that might not be a problem.

As I got older I stopped walking with the dogs,that was fun,and I would park my old 4X4 pickup on private land that I had permission to hunt on and wait for the deer and dogs.One year I counted 13 bucks all shooters but they were across a creek where I didn't have permission,so I could not shoot.One of the guys I hunted with used a browning and the wood was so pretty that it wasn't fun to hunt with this guy.Every body that knew him knew he was hard to get along with and didn't want any body to touch his browning.He made some great shots with that gun and deer within 200 yards was not safe,outside that we just watched the race.Would I ever buy a browning.no,I bought a browning semi-auto in 30/06 and got it through a gunsmith.The gun was shipped to browning 3 different times and when I got it back the 3rd time,a letter from browning consumers dept said you bought this browning BAR and it is not our property any more,stop sending the gun back.I wrote a steaming letter and swore off brownings.Even the gunsmith said I had a valid lawsuit here(even he could not group less than 3 inches with a whole days work at the range).I would buy almost anything other than browning for that reason,that being said,the browning bolts are good guns.Drop-Shot

8point that had to be 87-90.The gunsmith took it back in trade on a ruger.I would buy a used BLR or a bolt gun but never a BAR again.I know they are supposed to shoot well.A man that was like a father to me had one in 243 and I watched him take some great shots.We never measured the groups but all holes touched.When I got mine I put a leupold 3x9 and went to the range.After I could not hit a pie plate at 50 yards I switched scopes and the same results,thats when I took it back to the gunsmith.He took it to the range and put a simmons 44 mag and went through 2 boxes of ammo(which he charged me for)and said the gun would have to go back to Browning.After the 3rd time they said the gun was within specs and they could do no more.The gunsmith took the gun all apart and found the reciever was not perfectly centered with the bore I think he said,the gun will always be a 3-31/2 inch gun he said.I traded for a ruger and some reloading parts.No new BAR's for me ever again.I love the looks but you have to find one that shoots.Drop-Shot

8point here's another,at a gun store a man looked at me and asked if I wanted to buy a browning highpower,shot only 100 times,I said no but another person I knew bought it.Didn;t you hear about the 3shot hang up?Every 3rd shot hung up.My friend sent the gun to browning and they said it was fixed,got it back and did the same thing.browning took pictures as he shot the entire box,noproblem found,after several times they said the problem was the magazine,the factory couldshoot5 clips in a row with no problemThey sent him his gun and accidentally sent a new it came with a new magazine and with it no malfunctions ever,I never thought about this example till later,so I bought the pistol and new mags and it was the best thing ever.So sometimes its not the gun,its something else.I don't know how that family did but they owed browning a great amount of pr.DropShot

8point I can understand where they are coming from,you can only do so much to a product.I used to own my on shop and a man brought me a a/c compressor and a accumulater and an orfice valve to put on his caprice,I have all the equiptment to drain an a/c and store and filter R-12.This was when you bought freon 12 at K-MART,in 12 oz cans.I flushed the system and put the parts on and charged the system and It cooled in the mid 40 degree on my guage,he said put more freon in ,it don't coolas well as it did before.At least 5 times I discharged his system and flushed and changed the orfice valve.Almost 1 year later he came back and I told him I could do no more with that system.The same thing browning told me.I made him a deal and browning offered no deals,I bought a compressor from GM and the system cooled like he wanted.It cost him 200.00 more but if browning offered me a deal like that I would think they were trying,but no as usual I end up with the stinky end of the stick.But I told them this would come back to haunt them,about 2 years later a rep from browning called me to ask if my problems were resolved,I told him I had to get rid of the gun and he came apart,he swore somebody was going to have to answer to this.Mabe they are better now,my friend that sent that browning highpower back several times and they called him later to ask if he was happy,he replied yes and I bought the gun from him and kept it for several yeare and traded for some thing,I don't remmember.They seem to have changed but I have limited experience since that.Drop-Shot