accurizing an abolt or xbolt.

[grumps]

I've been looking at ways to improve on the accuracy of my abolts and xbolts.  I hate the way browning just puts a barrel lug on the receiver and sets it into the stock.  Tried to find new stocks with pillar bedding but not on a browning, I guess that they just are not made with that in mind.  I can't find anything but custom really expensive stocks for brownings either.  Any ideas.

[Graybeard]

Perhaps you should just trade for a Remington. 

[mjbgalt]

the most accurate rifle i have ever owned was an abolt.

they are already bedded at the factory, should just need a good round of reloads and some range time to find what it likes.

did yours not get bedded?

[Will_C]

I have two A-bolts, a .243 and a .30-06, and they both shoot very well with a variety of loads. With the exception of swapping triger springs, I have not touched them.
I agree with Graybeard, if you want to tinker with a rifle, buy a Remington. They can be made ultra-accurate, if you want to pay the price.
Will

[ctrout]

Savages are ultra accurate without paying the price.  I do love my A-Bolt 270 Win though it's sub-moa as well but three times the price of what I paid for any of my Savages.  Oh, and the Savages are a tinkerer's gun too.  I've built two so far from a bare action, no gunsmith required.

[grumps]

I don't know if my A or X bolts are bedded by browning in any way.  They don't look like bedding when you take the stock off.  Just a hole made into the synthetic stock that the lug fits into.  I haven't taken the stock off of the X bolts yet.  So I'm not sure if they are any different or not.  Why arent' there any stocks available for Brownings like there are for most all other rifles?     At a decent price that is! 

[Mud]

All I needed to do to mine was have the trigger pull lightened up a bit. 

[MZ5]

There aren't lots of parts available for Brownings for 2 or 3 main reasons, IMO:

1)  They're not a rifle generally purchased by those who want something to fiddle with (which means there aren't parts, which discourages fiddling, which means there aren't parts, which means....)

2)  There aren't as many out there as Remingtons and Savages?

3)  They don't normally need it.

Now, I realize that every company puts out good and bad stuff, but #3 really is a pretty fair general rule.

What's the issue with your entire rifle collection (that's how it sounds from your OP) that makes you want to fiddle?  Are you just a natural tinkerer/fiddler?

[grumps]

They just aren't as accurate as I think that they should be.  Over 1" group at 100 yards, some larger depending on the ammo.  I'm not going to handload for these, been there, done that don't want to any more.  I'd just like to have them shoot a bit more accurate, something that is as accurate as my Tikka 3006 which is a honey.  The 300 WSM is my bean field gun and it does ok, but the 308 needs something to make it do better and the only thing I can really pin it down to is the way that Browning sets the barrel into the stock.  Not really any precision work on bedding from them.  Like I said it isn't really bedded in glass or bedded into anything just a hole in the stock that the lug fits into.  I guess I expected something better from Browning.  Not sure how my XBolt is bedded, it's still in the box. 

[Mud]

It sounds like your rifles are shooting within spec, and that what you really are after is a gunsmithing project.  As suggested earlier, consider a trade for an easily cumstomizable rifle you can pour money and time into.  The nice thing about a browning is you get a very functional product with a custom look (or the advertising hype of a custom) at an economical price range compared to a true custom.  That lug is epoxy bedded on my wood stock, though I don't feel a plastic stock is going to make a difference in how it shoots.  On a good day my groups are within 1", every so often forming one hole, and sometimes a little over if I'm not on my game.   

Maybe shoot that x-bolt then let us know how you feel about it?

[MZ5]

If you end up deciding that a much more customizable gun is better than what you have, I have a Savage I'll trade you for a Browning.  I might even throw in a spare barrel.