timely thread... just had my late father's Belgium HP out of the safe... according to the Browning website it was never made... it is a 76C serial number instead of the 245 serial number that was supposed to start in 1976... my father shot IPSC with it back in the day... and Bill L. at Cylinder & Slide worked on it back then... he used to shoot and compete at the same range with my dad... I have known him since I was a little kid, great guy.