I won a Browning X-Bolt in 30-06 in a sporting clays tournament. I had not paid attention to the X-Bolt previously. It's a great rifle. First, to speak to the controlled round feed comparison, the X-Bolt magazine design feeds the rounds straight up, not side to side. The polymer magazine is slick. I just got back from a south Texas hog hunt. I had five hogs come to the feeder, and I got three shots off as slick as you please. ( I did shoot across the course for several years with a bolt action in rapid fire, so I know how to work the bolt quickly and keep the rifle to my face.) If there were any feeding issues, they would show. The trigger on the X-Bolt is a three lever design and it's the only factory trigger on a rifle I ever bought that I didn't adjust or replace. The first load I tried shot 1" and I've not yet done load development but it killed three hogs and the bullets went where I was aiming. It's floated and bedded from the factory. I would take a .375 X-Bolt to Africa with confidence.