One Last Demo...

One day at lunch during hunting season I was playing around with the X-Bolt, trying to figure out the exact problem with the ejection, and while working the bolt slowly it functioned perfectly.

The following video demonstrates this.

Browning no longer has a leg to stand on, the round should eject no matter the speed at which the bolt is worked.

I'll be calling Browning to discuss this latest development and will post when I have something new to report.

My Live Fire Test

OK, here's the latest - I called Browning to discuss why their rifles have this problem with ejection, and how I managed to get the only 2 with this problem.

Here is the explanation I got -

We designed them to not eject a live round, but to be able to tell the difference in weight so they WILL eject an empty case. I then asked him why that's not stated anywhere in the owners manual that came with the firearm, guess what, he didn't know why.

OK, I'm a reasonable individual, so I went out and shot it, and as you can clearly see in the new video, an empty case is not ejected (maybe its internal scale needs to be re-calibrated)

My video of the malfuntion...

This is a video of the second Browning XBolt in 300 WSM that I received the other day after returning the 1st one to Davidson's out of Prescott.

The reason I returned the 1st one is because when I shot it, it would not eject the empty case with 2 rounds still in the mag.

So when I received this one, I checked, and sure enough, the same problem. When I called Browning, they insist no one else has had any problems. I find this hard to believe, unless I am unlucky enough to get the only 2 with this problem.

I plan on calling Browning again here shortly, and will probably ship it back to them to fix it.

I made this video, since I'm used to the "there is nothing wrong with it" you get from alot of companies when you return something.