Bonus segment: Browning's new fast-twist .270 Winchester & 7mm PRC rifles

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Browning knocked my socks off with two surprise introductions at SHOT 2023!

First is an X-Bolt chambered in .270 Winchester—with a fast rifling twist rate in the barrel! You can shoot all traditional .270 ammo in it, plus handloaders can use all the modern, heavy-for-caliber, high-BC bullets. It's terrific.

Second is a whole line of X-Bolt rifles chambered in 7mm PRC. I thought Browning wouldn't come to market with a 7mm PRC until 2024. I was wrong—and how! Long barrels, medium barrels, short suppressor-ready barrels, various stocks and finishes... pick your poison.

This 5-minute episode with Rifle Product Manager Aaron Cummins details the new lines. Check it out!

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0:00.0	At the shot show, second day here, just looking around for what I think some of the coolest products at the show are.
0:08.3	And I happened into the Browning booth, ran into my good friend Aaron Cummins, and he showed me two new X Bolt rifles.
0:15.1	They're evolutions of the X bolt design.
0:17.6	One of them is in 7 PRC.
0:19.5	The other one, man, about blew my socks off. It's a 270
0:23.3	Winchester with a fast-twist barrel. Tell us about these rifles, Aaron, and what motivated them.
0:28.8	Yeah, so the 7PRC is obviously the hot new cartridge. We're doing it in most of our ex-bolts
0:34.5	with 26-inch barrels on the long range, 24 inch on the standard.
0:38.8	Then we're doing suppressor ready guns with 20 inch barrels.
0:42.6	270 Winchester with a fast twist.
0:44.5	We have a 7.5 inch twist on there.
0:47.4	There's a lot of new high BC bullets for the 270 Winchester.
0:51.9	We thought it's time to put a fast twist out there so people can utilize those high BC bullets in the 270 Winchester. We thought it's time to put a fast twist out there so people can
0:56.1	utilize those high BC bullets in the 270. That was such a terrific evolution. I was really surprised.
1:03.7	I asked you, my first question was, does the magazine have enough head height in it for people to
1:08.0	seat those long stretched out bullets? And you said, absolutely. So this is just, man, my opinion, too cool. I'm looking at the one with an adjustable cheek rest in the Ovex Browning Camel.
1:19.6	It's got a nice bronze. Is that a smoke bronze serico?
1:23.6	Muzzle brake, fluted, beautiful rifle in 270 with a fast twist.
1:28.3	So for you hand loaders out there that want to shoot the new modern long-range 270 bullets,
1:34.3	you've now got a turnkey solution.
1:36.3	You can walk out the door into your loading room and start loading those and know that your rifle is going to perform well with them.
1:42.3	The 7MMPRC, candidly, I didn't expect to see in Browning still 2024.
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