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winchesters best vs. brownings best

young gunyoung gun Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
edited November 2001 in Ask the Experts
I am going to get a 300 wsm .I just am .I dont know what a winchester can do accuracy wise but ive shot a few brownings and love the gun.It has a sweet trigger and is well made.I have had great luck with a browning 22 250 at 400 to 500 yards knocking down 20 oz coke bottles ,but i dont know what to buy the winchester or the browning .Oh i do not want the boss so out of the winchester and the bossless browning 300wsm for accuracy.THANX
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  • gunnutgunnut Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't own one, "yet" but I just love the model 70 featherweight.
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  • oneshyoneshy Member Posts: 417 ✭
    edited November -1
    If you can do that, stay with the Browning.
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  • OrphanedcowboyOrphanedcowboy Member Posts: 351 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a Model 70 WSM laminated, and I am quite impressed, I love it, it is a great shooter out of the box, I am not a big fan of the Brownings, even though they have the same parent company.
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  • young gunyoung gun Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    One shy im not one to lie actually the gun was my uncles and he told me to come try it out.So we set bottles every one hundred yards all the way to what we thought was 500 yards stepped off.Later confirmed it was actually 440 with my range finder when i saw i hit the bottle at 400 hundred my chin hit the dirt i just looked at the gun and couldnt speak thats when i wanted a browning.
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  • bullhaulerbullhauler Member Posts: 118 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have a browning a-bolt hunter in the 300wsm. it consistently shoots 1/2 inch groups at 100yds with the factory 150 bst and just under an inch with the winchester power point 180. killed my first deer with it yesterday and i was impressed. 250 yd shot turned the deer 180 degrees before it hit the ground. tore up a goodbit of meat but so what. i love my gun especially after i had a gunsmith do a trigger job on it. my opinion is get a browning. if you are recoil sensitive dont get a wsm at all because contrary to reports it kicks. not unbearable but its not a gun to stay all day at the range with.
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  • dustebuttdustebutt Member Posts: 100 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Both top of the line rifles are made by the same plant so it should be more personal preffrence than anything. I do like the 45 degree bolt on the browning a-bolt.
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  • ppcshooterppcshooter Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    On the same note/ I have been tossed up with three. Remington/Browning/and the Winchester.I did not see anyone throw Remington into the mix. For this reason I have been partial to the Remington. I own a 760 30/06 pump. With Factory Federal I have gotten these results/150 gr. 3/4 to 1 1/2 " @100 1" to 2 1/4 @ 200180 gr 1/4 to 1/2 @ 100 3/8 to 3/4 @ 200220 gr. Remington (1) hole 3 shot groups @ 100 and @ 200 no larger than 3/4" but the bullet begins to drop off by 2" to 2 1/2 "And that is out of a pump gun sand bagged with a 4 x 12 scope. As you can see with Factory loads I am partial to Remington well at least this one. I want to move up to a 300 for a little more downrange punch and reach for my trip out west. So I guess what my question is/// for the best out of the box. Knowing I may only get one shot I was looking to put a 300 win on my Encore. Told that shot for shot it will out shoot any other/ Is this true?
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