Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Speaking of the old A-bolt

A few of mine.
Gold medallion .30-06, Gold medallion .22lr, and a ..22WMR

I’ve seen incredible groups shot by the A-Bolts predecessor as well...the BBR. It is heavier, but handles sweet.

I bought the basic A Bolt in Long Action back in 92 or 93....

in 06, 300 Win Mag and 338 Win Mag...

each one, shot like it thought it was a varmint gun...

I still have each one, as it is against my religion to let go of an accurate rifle...

very nice Jack.. especially the two rimfires...

I bought my son a A Bolt micro medallion in 7-08 for his 9th birthday. 20" barrel. What a great rifle. He still enjoys it at 22 years old and ocassionaly still hunts with it. Not long ago we had it at the range and hit steel at 550 yards with it. 45 grs of Varget under a 120 gr BT. Those micro medallion were discontinued but they continued to make the micro hunter. Anybody that I know that has a Browning bolt rifle of any kind, loves them.

I have three A Bolt BOSS rifles that are amazingly accurate. Two .270's and a .300WM. What I always grab for the last 28 years.

I found an A-bolt I Stainless Stalker in 30-06 on gunbroker a few years ago. It was supposedly NOS and when I got it it definitely appeared that way.

I bought it because when I was 16 looking for advice on what rifle to purchase as my first it's what my uncle suggested in both caliber and model. I ended up going with a Winchester Classic Stainless with BOSS in 7mm Rem Mag at the time. My uncle passed away and when I stumbled on it on gunbroker I thought I'd buy it.

It's as accurate as any other rifle I own but it's also one of the hardest recoiling.

Swap out the recoil pad for a Limbsaver or similar. Made a world of difference on mine! I shot it for many years with the factory pad when I was young and tough (dumb ). Decided as I got older that I don't like recoil that much.

I have this exact gun and have killed several hundred deer with it. My dad got it in a trade when I was 14 or 15 and I'm 40 now. It mostly sits in the safe these days as I tinker with other rifles, but I dragged it out a few weeks ago and took it to our local range. I hit every plate I shot at out to 500 yds and was wondering why I ever needed any other rifles. It shoots factory 180 AB into 3/4 moa and I would suppose you can kill most anything in NA with that. Also shoots 150 SST into 1/2 moa groups and they are tough on whitetails......

Pardon my ignorance, but if it was stupid accurate, what difference did it make what twist it had?

I still have a stainless a-bolt with the Boss recoil compensator. Like it for ease of dialing in factory loads when bench shooting, and long distant hunting. Back in day could easily have 5 shot group in 1/2” circle or smaller @ 100 yards. Was and is a heck of a loud shooter.

Owned an A Bolt in 25-06. Had a Boss system and it was astoundingly accurate. Great round for PA whitetail. I traded it off for a trap gun and no longer hunt deer. I recommend an a bolt to any one seeking a good rifle

I wish I could split this into a "Where are the old BARs?" thread.

I've literally seen one in 5 years at gun shops used.

Where do you live? I know of at least 2 dozen or more in 3 different places.

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Sill have mine from when I was a kid. 1st year of the BOSS system for Browning Medallion 7mm rem mag with the walnut stock. Even had my name engraved in script on the bolt when they use offered it. Sent in the bolt and a few weeks later showed up. Thought I was the chit being I was the only one in the area, much less high school with a "personalized" rifle. haha. I never really played around with the BOSS system, just put the CR on it and went shoot. Still shoots lights out, but now that I'm much older, 50, I'm still curious on If I can actually dial that sucker to close to 1 hole groups.

Shot one of my BOSS Medallion .270 Win today with some 130gr SST's at 3043fps. Lightened the trigger spring.

.293" three shot group at 100 yards. I've stretched this rifle out to 550 yards on targets and can nail a grapefruit every time as long as I don't have too much wind.

Really my very favorite rifle for the last 31 years.

My brother bought a 7mm Rem mag White gold medallion 2 years ago with a Nikon monarch scope mounted for 550. it has 2 dings on the stock which could refinished but otherwise it is like new.

Screaming deal on a White Gold model... I've only seen a couple.

it came with 10 boxes of factory ammo. Deal of the Century, the guy who does my consignments just shook his head.