Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Why no love for the X-Bolt?

LOL...maybe you need to post the photo of you using that Tikka

Would you trust a bad review... or good for that matter... from someone without experience with the particular item?

Is it called an X-bort in Japan?

Damn GW, do you carry an old hog with you everywhere you go?

gEOw

How is the A-Bolt 12 gauge shotgun? Anyone have one?

Ya' busted me! LOL How did you know?


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Just carry a change of outfit



do a quick wardrobe change



switch em' from front to back



change out rifles



whoda' thunkit!




JAPPFT,


GWB

A whole lotta grunts there!

I can't stand the crooked A$$ squashed pill mentos candy bolt handle knob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [bleep]!

Love it. Po Tay To, Po TOT Oh

geedubya -

You are a quick change artist. <G>


Jerry

I have the X-bolt Stainless Stalker and I really like it. It's fairly light weight, the stock fits me well and I haven't found a load that it doesn't like. I traded a Winchester Extreme Weather for it because I hated the stock on the Winchester and I didn't want to spend the money to re-stock it.

Oh, and welcome to the Campfire Sylvaneous.

Outside of some FTE WSMs, I haven't heard of any problems with the X-bolt. I have heard people postulate that they might have problems but most reviews are very positive. The trigger on mine is adjusted all the way down and is just a touch heavier than I like but it has NO creep. I think that my perception of its weight might be that it doesn't move at all until it breaks.

Can't BS a BSer... I see two different hogs there.

Miroku. Aren't these the same guys that took a 1885 and made it look like a zoot suit?

He qualified it with "on average!"

what?

Been my experience with my XB in -06 too. It shoots pretty much anything I feed it into MOA or better groups.

I have one of the early ones. It shoots lights out. Bit rough with 3" slugs but what isn't?

I'm biased towards a 90 degree bolt throw. Of all the rifles that were less, the Weatherby Mark V felt fine and the X and Abolts were the worst. The 280 Xbolt went down the road for this reason after a very short tenure in my safe.

And to drop a squirt of piss in the truck argument, I've owned a truck from every manufacturer at one time or another except Nissan and Honda(if that thing they sell qualifies). I loved them all, but the one with the least hassle and the most where it matters is the Tundra sitting in my driveway, which has SHAMED all the others.

Some of the B78s and 1885s were built to be modern hunting rifles suitable for scope use and were stocked accordingly. Some were built as traditional pieces for use with irons and actually came with good sights, a rarity these days, crescent buttplates and chambered for old-timey rounds like .38/55, .30/40, .405, and .45/70. They also made a number of BPCR models with Badger barrels and target sights that are as close to being an out-of-the-box competetive rifle as it gets, and at an amazing price. These last are in great demand. None of those were marketed as a reproduction of anything in particular, just excellent single-shot rifles made with modern materials and strong, well finished, and accurate.