Got my first 'hands on' with a Browning Hell's Canyon yesterday. A beautiful well proportioned and balanced rifle. It had a live round stuck in the chamber, so I had to field strip it to correct the problem. I am less impressed now, although the owner says it's a tackdriver, .300 WM. First impressions, extractor is a quite small, it let go of the cartridge rim without pulling any brass from the rim. Bolt lock appears to be a tiny nylon(?) tipped pin, wondering at the life expectancy of any plastic. Plastic mag box internals. And scariest of all is the more or less sealed die cast (zinc?) trigger works housing, it is extremely heavy, must be chock full of parts and pieces. Even if it's a good accurate rifle, with some of the materials used..I can't help but wonder if it will still be going faithfully over a hundred years from now, like some of my Mausers, Mannlichers and Mauser types?
