Winchester gives off an appreciable “old school” vibe with a beefy stock produced by Grayboe stocks. It looks beefy and stout, a match for the fluted bolt, but it’s betrayed by the thin-ish profile barrel on this Renegade Long Range SR model.
We confused it with a more hunting-focused platform based on the barrel profile, but in reality it’s supposed to be a more precision-shooting-focused rifle. There are no additional features to the XPR. The comb doesn’t adjust, it has sling swivels out front so bipod choices are limited and it doesn’t even come with a Picatinny rail on the receiver. Outside of that, it has a proprietary magazine and catch. Something precision focused should take AICS-pattern magazines at minimum.
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Things didn’t get better for the Winchester in the accuracy department. It took everything in us to get it close to 1-MOA accuracy and I don’t believe we truly broke that barrier. It’s too bad, because the XPR gives off the vibe that it’s much better than it is.
