Any Browning Long Gun Fans Here?

[boykinlp]

I just received some guns that I inherited. Three Browning's to include an A5 Automatic Light 12 with blonde stocks in the picture, an A5 Automatic Light 20, and a BAR 22 Automatic Rifle. The 20 gauge and the .22 are NIB. The 12 gauge was taken out of the box, put together, wiped down, but never shot. They are all three made in Japan. They will be nice to add to the collection. I was given a NIB Belgium made A5 Magnum 12 about 35 years ago, and bought a BAR Mark II Safari BOSS with Leupold Vari-x II 3-9x40mm scope in 270 about 27 years ago. I think the 270 is Belgium made too. That completes my Browning collection.
Larry

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Do I like Browning long guns? How about Superpose Lightnings in 12 (1964) and 20 (1965)? How about a 12 gauge 425 Citori, a 20 ga 425 and Upland Special, a 28 ga Grade VI Upland Special and 30" Feather XS, a 410 30" Feather XS and a 32" 725? How about a 1986 production Model 1886 45-70?

I guess the answer is yes!

Ivan

There are about 20 other Browning rifles and shotguns floating around in the family too but not one A-5!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

I like them but I don't own any!!!

 

[vinn]

my favorit browing is the BLR in .308. --2 of them. the next good gun show, one will go. vin

 

[storyman]

6 center fire rifles, 3 Auto-5's and 3 22 rifles, along with 2 Hi-Powers. Yep, I have a weakness for Brownings!

 

[Modified]

I spent many years in pursuit of a Browning 92 in .357, finally found one this past year and it was everything I knew it could be.

I've enjoyed Auto-5s in the past, but no browning long gun ever got me quite like shooting a 92 a friend had years ago.

 

[ACP230]

Browning BAR Grade II .30-06 was my first good deer rifle.
Took my first buck with it.
My dad took it out west and shot a buck antelope with it as well.

Fine rifle. Very accurate with factory rounds or my reloads.

I always liked the look of the Browning bolt actions. Never
managed to afford one.

 

[oink]

I only have one. A Belgian BLR in 308. An older one.

 

[Shark Bait]

Browning 1885 in .45-70 by Miroku. Great rifle.

 

[Charlie Foxtrott]

I am pretty fond of mine as well.

my favorit browing is the BLR in .308. --2 of them. the next good gun show, one will go. vin

Actually I like all of my JMB designed guns. And I have quite a few of them.

 

[targetchief]

I have a Citori or 6. [emoji3]


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[colt_saa]

When I was in my teens, my Father let me pick out my first NEW shotgun. We went to Sears and I came home with a Browning Auto 5, Light 12. Belgium of course

Now more than 40 years later, I still own it

I bought a Citori for Skeet when I was in college (trap/skeet was a PE credit

), but sold it because I needed cash to live on.

I did pick up a B2000 back in 95 that became my Skeet gun. It was amazingly light shooting

Later along the way, I found a nice Belgium Auto 5, Mag 12 and eventual a BPS.

Then I came upon a .308 BLR. What a great design for handling the higher pressure cartridges


Most recently, I added a color case hardened BL-22 to the family.

I always wanted a BL-22. I love that fast stroke on the lever.

So when this one caught my eye I just grabbed it

 

[CH4]

Yes, I like the browning A5, O/U and Safari.

 

[gfors]

Love my 1957 Light Twelve, given to my dad, by his friend's widow, as a "thank you" for his help liquidating a rare book collection. When Dad passed, it became mine. Still goes out the marsh, but 2 3/4" steel is getting hard to find.

 

[Ruger 13]

I have a few FN 98 Browning/Mauser rifles from the 60's that are beauties!

 

[SF VET]

Lets see....son mowed yards when he was in the 8th grade, saved up his money to buy his first firearm, a 20 gage, and now one of my favorite rifles is a nice wood stocked X Bolt, 223, with a 1/12 twist, is superbly accurate with my 40 grain Hornady rounds. Bought a Japanese reproduction 52b 22 rifle about 25 years ago, again, accurate with CCI, since made by the same company that made the Browning firearms, maybe counts here. My son about the same time bought a 22 lever action by Browning from one of my work associates.

I have Winchester and Browning long guns, but no Remingtons or Savages.

SF VET

 

[Lonegle57]

Have had a "like" for single shot rifles. In my herd are two Brownings,
a 45-70 and a 25-06.

 

[M29since14]

I have a Citori or 6. [emoji3]

Me too! I'm an admirer of lots of Browning firearms. It started when my Grandpa took me with him to a Sears store to pick up his new Challenger .22 pistol and it's gotten exponentially worse over the years. They've made and marketed so many great firearms over the course of my lifetime I can't think of them all. Probably my favorite is the small-frame Citori, but only because I didn't have the money to buy the Superposed models when I was a young man.

Until recent years, there were very few things that have said Browning on them that I didn't like. Nowadays, they seem to have cheapened some of their clothing and stuff to appeal to impulse buyers walking through the big box stores. I suppose they've needed to appeal to that market to keep the bank account where they want it.

 

[chief38]

I've owned quite a few Shotguns in my time and my two fav's are my Browning Grade 2 Superposed O/U and my Browning A-5. Both have seen decades of Pheasant, Grouse, Quail and Partridge hunts, many Sporting Clays jaunts, and more Skeet and Trap than all my other SG's combined. I've actually lost count of exactly how many rounds have been through each SG, but suffice it to say many many thousands of rounds each! They are still in excellent shape although there are some minor scratched and nicks from going through the woods and briars.

Both SG's are from the late 50's and both were purchased by me new in the box but unfired by their original owners about 30 years ago.The Superposed came in its original Browning luggage case and the A-5 was not in its original box as it had been discarded. It now has a Browning luggage case as well (bought it soon thereafter buying the SG).

In the 30+ years I've shot the snot out of these two SG's, I have had zero issues, zero failures and have enjoyed the living daylights out of them! they are still tight, accurate and function 100%. While the current production Citori and A-5's look somewhat similar to these two classics, they hold no candle at all to them. Anyone who owns one or several of these two SG's knows what I mean! Not that the Citori is a bad SG - it is just not a hand made Superposed from Belgium!

Over the years I have culled down my SG collection but these two are about the last two I'd part with. Maybe ...... I just might take them with me - lol!!

 

[max]

The only one I have is a Crossover Citori. I bought it a few years ago for sporting clays. It is a very nice gun and one of the very few new guns I ever bought.