Like Pappy, I just find the modern Browning rifles fuggly, and for the same reasons, just to add gold triggers. I really don't like gold triggers on a rifle...I can live with them on a fancy shotgun.
The only Browning rifles I have first hand experience with are my Belgian .22 Auto which, for this discussion, I'd consider in a different light than the CF's, and my brother's and a couple of friends' several BLR's. They are '80's era rifles, all .308's and I would have to say they are nice handling, accurate rifles. For a while my brother had a "long action" BLR in 7mm RM, but even he realized it was an ungainly, weird in some way, rifle. I think it went down the road. On a few occasions over the years I've had to fix issues with those BLR's, primarily caused by dirt, rough handling and lack of maintenance. Once you get some foreign matter in those actions there's often no easy way to get it out. Just my experience.
