There's a horror story out there about every product that has been around long enough but on average Toyota and Miroku make excellent products.
Miroku makes better than decent shotguns. Most of Brownings other guns I happen to like a great deal, especially the BPS shotguns and the Buckmark pistols. It is not a brand issue with me, nor a Made in Japan issue... it is a ridiculously poorly designed action with a ton of shortcuts. Love the "bedding" with hotmelt glue!
. Funny how a very complicated design(and that it is) can work 24/7 while the rifle brand most idolized here has to be tweaked so it can shoot and function like it was supposed to when it came out of the factory. I have owned Abolts and X Bolts but no longer, it would take a lot of work to find someone that has had an issue with one.
Not sure what your point is exactly...
The bedding material is a small dollop of a heated plastic... I feel comfortable enough calling it hotmelt glue, YMMV.
The tweaking done to 700s is far from mandatory and to suggest the average 700 does not shoot adequately, or any worse on average, than an A or X is laughable... and you CAN work on the Brownings, but no one wants to.
As to reliability, as I already stated I have personally witnessed more failures with A-Bolts than all other makes and models combined with far less time near A-Bolts.
I have seen no fewer than three fail in the hands of 24hour posters. It would not take me more than a second to pick up my phone and find a half-dozen people that have had issues with an A-Bort.
Again, YMMV.
