Listen up Cool...

These two guns are night and day, hear me...night and day. I own the .243WSSM and have NEVER shot a more balanced andout of the box accuraterifle in 25 years. The bolt on these rifles has three (3) locking lugs to securely hold the bullet in place. Rock solid performance. The average speed of your bullet ranges from 3250 to over 4000 fps, depending on bullet weight. At 300 yds it still retains almost 1400 lbs of energy! This rifle will sicken deer and bear. Don't know if I posted this on here or not but I recently shot a 200lb blackbear at 207 yards(rangefinder) and broke two ribs on impact, took out one lung and busted a rib upon exit!! This is absolutely a true account. My buddy was behind me with his spotting scope.

Oh and did I mention this gun is a tack driver?? Cloverleafs all day long at 100 yards. And this talk of the bullets jamming up at times, no such thing, EVER! Not with my rifle anyways.

Do yourself a favor, buy this gun. You will never look back.

BTW, I do like the model 70 Winchester, however I really like the Browning...ALOT!

Good luck

I would buy the Browning just because of past good results with the A-Bolts. Where I live the 270 and 300 WSM are selling well. However the WSSM's have not caught on . At least not yet. I can see no real advantage to the Short mags. If I already had a lon Mag, I would not trade it for a short version. If I had the short one, I wouldn't trade for the long one either.

I would recomend the A bolt its a little more money but better in the long run andi think i would stick with the plain .243 there isnt really a whole lot of difference in the rest and you would be able to get some fairly cheap rounds. Tell us what you get.