Thread: Committed to new rifle, now which one?

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

Why yes I do sir, but phil the Bav is my good rifle and may as well count as not existing when talking about travelling and high country hunting. I'm not going to put another scratch on her so it's just my red and fallow gun from now on and any other easy going hunting. I love the 300WM cal. so a second rifle to me makes sense especially considering I already have the dies for it!

HAH I bet you had a hard time convincing the missus that you had to buy a separate gun in the same calibre because the last gun you bought you can't use on certain hunting trips. Between this and the puppy drama I'm a little worried for you and the missus haha

yeah mate i have a tikka t3 with laminate stock, its in 300wsm.
Awesome feeling gun, nice and solid, got a bit of weight to it but still not to bad.

Also have a limbsaver on it which is still honestly up there with one of the best purchases i have made, they are an awesome product.

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

Cheers man, not at all meaning to offend but I can't stand the X Bolt and A Bolts, to me they feel like plastic toys. I know a few blokes that are good hunters who swear by theirs and I'm sure they are great to those that own them but I personally wouldn't have one.


At this stage I'm tossing up between the A7 and laminate stainless.

If anyone knows whether my Limbsaver for a tikka t3 would work on the A7 it might be the clincher.

Cheers

BH - I have to second mattyp. I recently have also been in the same boat and tried everything from the T3, the A7, the 85, a bolt, x bolt and even a steyr manlicher!

For me the xbolt was the best, the duratouch stock, to me, was the best of the synthetics and the wooden Brownings were even nicer. I would recommend the xbolt as the best bang for your buck but second to that was the 85, then the a7 then the steyr then the t3. The t3 had a really cheap feeling stock. A bolts admittedly were not so good although many hunters swear on their accuracy and I'd trust browning to deliver that.

If you really can't bare to touch a browning xbolt then the 85 and a7 were really really nice and shot exceptionally well. And slightly more accurate than the t3 which for long range stuff will matter.

Hope this confuses and helps you - good luck man, always exciting buying new rifle.



Sent from my Browning

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Never had a stock warp or even change point of impact due to weather. Keep it oiled up and your good.

What he said

What did u decide in the end BH.


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While waiting for the .270 to sell I went out and bought myself a completely different gun so now I have no money left haha I've decided though if I want a long range rig I may as well go the whole way and get the proper stuff so I'm going to save up and get a 338 Lap or something end of next year and just keep the .270 for the medium range stuff in places I don't want to take the 300WM.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Forget them both and buy a secondhand 75 or if your wallet can handle it a new 85.

Damn right!