Brownings are a real purty rifle but before you buy one check out the books Bolt Action Rifles and Frank DeHause' s book on Bolt action rifles. These guys are the experts and my findings as a custom rifle builder go with them! Non hardened reciever, barrel threaded into a pressed in insert, weak camming geometry due to the short lift on the bolt, lots of pot metal and a marginal trigger. This is a rifle with a finite life and not somthing which will wear out barrels get re barreled and keep going. It is a rifle with a short life especially if you hand load on the warn side. Look at these books and the Ruger 77, or a custom rifle, had to put that in here since that is what I do for a living. As to the short mags, thumbs down! They offer nothing not already on the market and do not beat what is already out there. According to reports sales have been lower then expected. I may well be wrong but I expect to see them die out. Do not forget, this has been tried before and failed, remember the .350 Rem Mag and the 6.5 Rem Mag.
One other thing, .300 Win Mag, 7mm Rem Mag and such are available almost any place in the world, when I was in Africa you found this ammo in all gun shops.
Last time I talked to the P.H. I used over there he was telling me that the short mags were not availably and they doubted it would be in the near future, he is not only a guide but also works with a leading gunshop in South Africa, just somthing to keep in mind.


Hope I have been of some help, your friend
Jud