In my hunting group consisting of myself, Dad and Uncles we have a few Brownings and continue to buy them based on our very favorable experience with them.
We have the following that have many years of use on Deer, Elk, Bear, Coyote, etc.
For A-bolts we have:
7mm Rem Mag Composite Stalker
300 Win Mag Composite Stalker
7mm WSM Composite Stalker
30-06 Hunter FLD
For BAR's we have:
7mm Rem Mag Safari
270 WSM Shortrac Stalker
300 WSM Shortrac Stalker
For X-Bolts we have:
300 WSM Composite Stalker
325 WSM Synthetic Stalker
I also have 2 Citori's, 1 Gold Deer Hunter Special, 5 A-5's, and a BPS in 12 gauges.
I cannot recall any of us ever having a single misfire, jam, failure of any sort. I think an A-5 was having trouble ejecting light loads once, but we just needed to reconfigure the spring and sleeve configuration. I know for sure that non of them have had to go to the smith.
I don't think anyone can deny their out of the box accuracy.
As a side bar, They have not spent a lot of time in salty environments, but have all been hunted pretty hard.
