Browning Double Helix T-Bolt Magazines

Comments about Browning Double Helix T-Bolt Magazines:

Good design not the best product, when I push ammos into the magazine w/o turning the wheel look like the magazine is going to pop or break apart. This is cheap plastic compare to the 10/22 magazines and also cost triple the price. Hope Browning makes steel lips magazine in the future. This cheap plastic magazine makes my SS LTD EDITIONS t-bolt look cheaper. Will keep the gun Browning should consider remaking the magazine.

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I, and my children, are using the Browning T-Bolt w/ double helix magazine for recreational target shooting. The gun & magazines perform accurately and flawlessly, as we've come to expect from Browning/Miroku products.

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Takes a little to load, but once loaded it works well. Having an extra ckip to keep one loaded and one in the gun makes target shooting a little more entertaining

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.22 Skidoo, load the T-bolt mag like any other. Simply push the rounds into the mag, no need to roll the wheel at all.

The wheel is for ease of UNloading the magazine.

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The "Double Helix" magazine for the new Browning T-Bolt rifle has a few good points. It doesn't protrude from the bottom of the stock. It is relatively narrow. Rounds feed reliably from it. But it is a pain in the thumb to use, so much so that it seriously interferes with one's use and enjoyment of the rifle. Loading cartridges into the Double Helix requires that you rotate a little toothed plastic wheel with your thumb, about half a turn per round, against the pressure of a spring. Well, the little wheel is too narrow, and it digs painfully into the ball of your thumb when you apply enough pressure to turn it. I'm no wimp, but I found that after loading five rounds my thumb was too sore to continue. So I would load five rounds, shoot them, load another five, shoot them and so forth. After shooting about 100 rounds on my first afternoon with the T-Bolt, my thumbs -- I tried both -- were too sore to continue and I gave it up as a bad job. Thoughtless design faults like that irritate me and take all the pleasure out of owning a new rifle. Why didn't they test the magazine before loosing it on an unsuspecting public? If I, a burly gent of sixty-seven summers, can't operate the thing without pain, how could a woman or a child? Browning should supply a simple, all-metal, single-stack magazine like the ones that came with the earlier version of the T-Bolt. The new T-Bolt is a pretty decent rifle for the money, but Browning has gummed it up with too much "innovation" from the magazine department. I called Browning's customer service this morning and calmly described the problem. They offered to send me a replacement mag without being asked. I wondered if they had redesigned the mag with a wider wheel or a softer spring, and was told they had not. It was nice of them to send me a free mag -- the little suckers list for about $50 -- but I presume it will be just as painful to operate as the original. We'll see. Tomorrow I am meeting with the manager of the store at which I bought the T-Bolt -- and a $160 scope for it -- in hopes that he will let me return the whole shooting match and refund my money, which I will promptly apply to the purchase of a Weatherby XXII. Wish me luck. My advice is: Before you buy a T-Bolt, try loading all ten rounds into the Double Helix, not just once, but about ten times in a row. If your thumb doesn't hurt, you're a tougher man than I, or have a numb thumb. P.S. "The Double Helix" is the name of a book written by the English scientists Watson and Crick, and refers to the convoluted shape of the DNA molecule, which they discovered. I wonder if they copyrighted the term?

Comments about Browning Double Helix T-Bolt Magazines:

Great product. Functions flawless. Accidently dropped on concrete with no ill effects.

Service and delivery comments:

Super fast delivery. Best price around. Free shipping!!!

Comments about Browning Double Helix T-Bolt Magazines:

great quality

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My primary use of the Browning T-bolt rifle is target/metallic silhouette shooting. A couple of spare 10 round magazines are necessary. These are easy to load and have not had a single failure to feed.