User Guide

CONVENTIONAL LOA DING PROCEDURE— The
A-Bolt rifle may also be loaded like most other bolt
action rifles. Cartridges are inserted down into the
magazine through the ejection Port. Place a car-
tridge on top of the follower and push it down into
the magazine until it snaps in. After filling the maga-
zine to capacity, a cartridge can be placed in the
chamber by simply working the action.
LOADING TO FULL CAPACITY — If you wish to
load a round into the chamber after loading the
magazine, draw the bolt rearward to the fully rear-
ward position. Then close the bolt chambering a
round.
PLACE THE SAFETY IN THE “ON SAFE”
POSITION,
Lower the floorplate and refill the maga-
zine to capacity as previously described. The maga-
zine-floorplate may be opened at any time for re-
loading.
If you are loading through the ejection port. as ex-
plained under “Conventional Loading Procedure, ”
you can load to full capacity by first filling the
magazine to capacity, then manually thumbing a
round into the chamber, and pushing the cartridges
in the magazine down while closing the bolt.
IMME-
DIATELY PLACE THE SAFETY IN THE “ON SAFE”
POSITION.
Unloading the rifle
WITH THE SAFETY IN THE “ON SAFE” POSITION
AND THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION,
release the magazine floorplate to its open position.
Move the safety to “off safe” and draw the bolt to its
rear or open position. This will extract and eject any
live round that may be in the chamber. As a good
safety practice,
ALWAYS VISUALLY INSPECT THE
CHAMBER TO BE ABSOLUTELY SURE A LIVE
ROUND IS NOT PRESENT.
The magazine may then
be detached and either kept loaded or the cartridges
may be stripped from the magazine with your
thumb. To do this, push forward on the base of
each round with your thumb until the cartridge
clears the retaining rims. You can close the
floorplate either without the magazine or with an
empty magazine in place. The bolt may now be re-
turned to the closed position.
Scope Mount
All calibers are drilled and tapped for scope mounts.
See your Browning dealer to purchase the scope
mount base and rings designed for the A-Bolt.
Trigger Adjustment
1 The A-Bolt’s trigger is preset at the factory. The
trigger pull can be adjusted within a range of
approximately 3 to 6 pounds. To adjust the trig-
ger pull, first
MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE RIFLE
IS UNLOADED.
Next lower the floorplate and
carefully remove the trigger guard screw (See
figure 11). Lift the trigger guard out of the stock
(See figure 12).