![]() (Several other gun writers penned similar descriptions, including this one who wrote of the X-Bolt’s “new-aged, race car-esque lines”.)Īt any rate, as I handle the rifle today-10 years later-my own prior description of it seems strange its design hasn’t changed from 2008, but I no longer perceive Browning’s modern flagship as radical. He titled his story, “A Radical In The Family.” This wasn’t shortsightedness, for if anyone knows that guns and gun-buying trends evolve, it’s Keefe. The point is, human perception evolves with familiarity, and often it happens without our even realizing it.īack in 2008, this magazine’s editor in chief, Mark Keefe, reviewed the then-new Browning X-Bolt rifle. In 1985, a Glock looked liked a ray gun from a Buck Rogers episode-today it’s as normal as sunshine, despite that polymer handgun looking no different than it did back then. Elvis used to seem risque now that notion is laughable. Little boys haven’t changed, but perceptions sure have. In 1955, for example, it was acceptable-normal, even-for little boys to pretend to blast each other with toy guns at recess. It’s interesting how perceptions change over time.
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