The Browning X-Bolt Hunter is a walnut-stocked bolt-action 7mm Remington Magnum built for open-country deer and elk hunting. Browning no longer makes it, so it is a used buy. Browning gave this chambering 26 inches of barrel, the magnum length in the X-Bolt line, and the whole rifle measures 46.75 inches.

It has no sights. Three rounds sit in a detachable rotary magazine that locks in flush with the belly of the stock, and the magazine release sits inside the trigger guard. A bolt unlock button next to the top-tang safety lets the bolt be lifted and the chamber checked without taking the safety off. Scopes go on Browning's X-Lock bases, four screws into each base, and the pattern is Browning's own. The Feather Trigger leaves the factory at 4 lbs, with room to move either side of it.

If you're cross-shopping, the Ruger Hawkeye Hunter has an MSRP of $1,499, also in walnut, with a 20 MOA Picatinny rail already fitted and 1.1 lbs more weight on 2 inches less barrel. The current Browning X-Bolt 2 Hunter is catalogued in 7mm Rem Mag with the same 26-inch barrel, so the walnut hunting rifle is still made, a generation on. Buying this one used, check the magazine, because it is a Browning part and nothing else feeds the rifle.