The Browning X-Bolt Hunter is a walnut-stocked bolt-action 6.5mm Creedmoor built for deer and antelope hunting. Browning no longer makes it, so it is a used buy. It weighs 6.50 lbs, which is light for a 22-inch barrel in this cartridge, and the barrel free-floats in an action bedded at both the front and the rear.

Nothing on it aims. A scope, rings and a pair of Browning's X-Lock bases come first, and those bases take four screws each in a pattern Browning uses on nothing else, so no Remington 700 rail will replace them. The detachable rotary magazine holds four rounds and drops out flush with the bottom of the stock. Browning listed no muzzle thread for this chambering, so a brake or a suppressor means barrel work.

If you're cross-shopping, a used Weatherby Vanguard is 1.00 lbs heavier on a 24-inch barrel, and it came with a written sub-MOA guarantee that ran two years and stayed with the original buyer. The Howa 1500 is still in production, holds five, and has its two-stage trigger and three-position safety fitted from the factory. Buying the Browning used, check the rotary magazine is still with it, because that magazine is a Browning part and nobody else's.