Browning A-Bolt & A-Bolt II User Manual

• The serial number of your firearm can be found on the right side of the receiver, in front of the bolt handle.
• Before shooting your firearm, clean the anti-rust compound from the inside of the barrel, receiver and the action/chamber areas.
  • Various exposed metal parts of your new firearm have been coated at the factory with a rust preventative compound. A fine, light gun oil is ideal for removing this compound and for giving your new firearm its first lubrication.

• The Browning A-Bolt is a bolt-action rifle that operates by lifting the bolt handle, drawing the bolt rearward and then sliding the bolt forward and rotating the bolt downward until it stops.
  • This process takes a cartridge from the magazine and loads it into the chamber for firing.
• The “safety” is located on the top tang at the rear of the receiver. When the “safety” is drawn to the rear, the firearm is in the on safe position (Figure 2).
  • This blocks the trigger and locks the bolt in the closed position. In this position an “S” will appear on the tang in front of the “safety.”
  • When the “safety” is pushed forward, the “S” will be covered and a red dot will appear indicating that the rifle is in the “off safe” position and ready to fire (Figure 3).

• Below the bolt shroud and ahead of the “safety” is a serrated cocking indicator. The indicator is painted red.
  • When the rifle is cocked it may be readily felt with the thumb as well as easily seen with a quick glance downward (Figure 4).
  • When the rifle is fired, the cocking indicator retracts into the bolt shroud and cannot be seen or felt.

• Before inserting the bolt into your A-Bolt, make sure the firing pin is cocked and the “safety” is in the off safe position
  • When the firing pin is cocked, the cocking indicator is visible at the rear of the bolt. If the cocking indicator is not in the cocked position this means that the firing pin is not cocked.
  • To cock the firing pin simply turn the rear section of the bolt clockwise (when viewed from the indicator end) until the firing pin sear engages the notch in the bolt handle (Figure 5).
    • On a new rifle where surfaces are not yet burnished from use, it may be difficult to rotate the bolt sleeve by hand. If so, carefully grasp the firing pin sear in a padded vise and lift the bolt handle.

• The A-Bolt rifle comes packed in a foam-padded box with the bolt removed from the rifle. To install the bolt into the receiver perform the following procedure:
  • 1. Place the “safety” in the off safe position
  • 2. Ensure the lugs on the bolt sleeve and the lugs on the bolt are aligned.
  • 3. Align the forward end of the bolt in the rear opening of the receiver. It is not necessary to depress the bolt stop to insert the bolt, but you may do so to ease the installation (Figure 6).
  • 4. Push the bolt completely forward and rotate the handle down to lock it.
  • 5. Immediately place the “safety” in the on safe position. The rifle is now assembled and may be operated normally.