I have one of these in 280. It came bedded from the factory and consistently shoots less than MOA.
I have had and sold, one at a time, a synthetic stocked Remington 700 ADL in 243, Marlin XL7 in 270, TC Venture in 270, Tikka T3 in 270 and Savage Axis in 270. Being long and lanky and liking to do custom camo paint jobs on these plastic stocks, I had the recoil pad off of each and every one of them. And the thickness of the stock plastic on each and everyone of them was about 1/3 the thickness of the plastic of the Browning X-bolt stock. That was a pleasant surprise when I pulled the Inflex Recoil pad off the x-bolt. Stiffer, quieter stock because of that extra thickness. Was also very easy to cut a piece of black walnut on the band saw and create a spacer to increase the LOP a bit, unlike the other guns. All things considered, I rank this gray stock at the top of the synthetics I've worked with. And in general, the gray x-bolts are one of the best values going, imo.
