Browning documentary on youtube.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZxKOBmO4aU

I had no idea the guy made so many popular designs. A mechanical genius for sure.

Mike
 
Mike , I'll have to check it out. I love my Brownings and others that were his design with different companies. It's hard to look at most guns and not find a design aspect from him.

Gene R.
 
Thanks Mike. I did not know quite a bit of that history until you posted it up. Only one problem I want to but a few new (used) guns now.
 
If any of you are ever in Utah you should check out the Browning museum in Ogden, it has some really impressive things from him! It's amazing how many iconic designs came from one mind-1911, A5, .50BMG, Hi-power, and 1897 pump shotgun to name just a few.
 
Thanks for posting that Mike. Pretty interesting stuff I learned that I hadn't learned in training. At work we have a Browning M1919 (which is the aircooled version of the 1917) in the full auto version. Every so often we'll have "Full Auto Friday" and that one gets to come out and we get to play. Though because we get to play we also have to take apart and know how everything works together.

He did create some very fascinating guns for sure...

Dani
 
If any of you are ever in Utah you should check out the Browning museum in Ogden, it has some really impressive things from him! It's amazing how many iconic designs came from one mind-1911, A5, .50BMG, Hi-power, and 1897 pump shotgun to name just a few.
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If you really want to know John Moses Browning you need to get the book "John M. Browning: American Gunmaker". It is astounding the number of guns and gun types he designed. In my shoulda, coulda, woulda of gun purchases I passed on a Winchester 1893 pump (slide) action shotgun complete with Damascus barrels (2) back in the early '80's. Damn! One neat thing about Browning Arms company is that they are a gun company, in existance for over 100 years that has never made a firearm. The whole story about the Auto-5 and Brownings falling out with Winchester is classic. Because Winchesters patent lawyers were so good, no gun company anywhere was able to design a decent semi-auto shotgun until 1948 when the patents expired. The Remington 11-48 was the first decent competition the A-5 had, 50 years on.
 
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