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H Richard

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Added to the Browning Handguns over the weekend. A pretty nice local gun & sporting goods auction. It was listed on Proxibid also, so there were like 1500 bidders. I was able to pick up a very clean Baby Browning. I know it is a nearly worthless caliber, and too diminutive to really shoot well, but I always wanted either a Vest Pocket Colt or a Baby Browning. It's a Belgium made and goes well with the Mod 1910 (.380).

 
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I'd love to have an original Baby Browning. I had to settle for a copy.
Don't sell it short. These guns are more accurate than you think. And the .25 acp may not be much, but it'll get your butt out of a jam if need be. ;)
 
The only Browning handgun I own is a late production FN M1900 in .32 ACP, one of the nicest I have seen. Sort of strange looking, but it was the very first of its kind - the first blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol. I shoot it occasionally but not often, as the condition is too good. But it's very reliable. It's my "kitchen gun" loaded with Winchester Silvertip. Teddy Roosevelt often carried one like it.
 
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Soft spot for those, too, with an unfired 1967 baby (in the zip pouch), and the Browning Sig Trio, ANIB 9mm, 38 Super and .45 ACP that haven't seen daylight in 25 years.
 
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i'd like to have a pre-ww1 1910 in .380

been meaning to start a collection of early 20th century "pocket" guns... but my interests are so varied i havent got to it yet
 
QUAD Set of PRISTINE, SCARCE Brownings, ANIB

Scarce BDA 9mm (Sig) 9-shot 2740 mfg.
Scarce BDA .38 Super (Sig) 752 mfg.
BDA .45 ACP (Sig) 7-shot
Above MFG 1977 to 1980, all early production

... and ...

Baby Browning with zip pouch, vintage 1967
 

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i'd like to have a pre-ww1 1910 in .380

been meaning to start a collection of early 20th century "pocket" guns... but my interests are so varied i havent got to it yet
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For about 10 years back in the 1970s-early 80s I amassed around 30 U. S. pocket pistols, and that amounted to about every maker, caliber, and style available - but never did have a S&W .32 pistol nor any .25s, just .32 and .380. I sold most of them, but kept a few Savages and Remington 51s as they are the best. In the mix were a few foreign pocket pistols I liked, including the aforementioned FN-Browning M1900. I kept that one because it was the first commercially-made blowback pistol and I found it pretty sexy. The weirdest was the Davis-Warner "Infallible" .32. I still have it as it is so odd-looking.
 
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