The Browning Automatic Rifle, otherwise known as the BAR, is an altogether distinct firearm from the more widely known M1918 BAR light machine gun of WWI, WWII, and Korean War fame. This BAR was born out of FN’s “Carbine 66” commercial project. Design, testing, and fine tuning was done in 1966 and completed in 1967. […]
Browning Arms Company, a name synonymous with quality firearms for hunting, was founded in 1878 in Morgan County, Utah by the gun messiah himself, John Moses Browning. And while they haven’t made many firearms targeted outside their core market of hunters and sport shooters, there have been a few exceptions like the BPS High Capacity shotgun. The […]
Sporting clays is about as much fun as you can have with a shotgun short of pointing one at ducks or upland birds. And as an owner of an XT Trap smoothbore, I can attest that Utah-based Browning’s Citori guns, while not inexpensive, provide plenty of bang for your shotgun buck. With its adjustable comb […]
A French gun is an Obscure Object Of Desire? You’re probably wondering how much wood alcohol got into the hooch I’ve been drinking all winter. But bear with me, because something like this gun probably has a place in any true collector’s portfolio . . .
We don’t want to leave objectivity completely at the door, but TTAG hearts Wild West Guns. Last year they sprinkled some pixie dust and transformed my deplorable Marlin 1894 into a cowboy race gun, and now they’ve opened a new shop in Nevada and turned their attention to Browning’s top-shelf BLR.
I’m a marketing guy, first and foremost. I was raised that way. From a very tender age, my pater familias drilled into my head how to get past the hype and determine if the advertiser was playing us. So I tend to look at things from a very skeptical, analytical point. But I’m also human. Marketing […]
Life is all about balance. It’s a Zen thing. Yin. Yang. Black. White. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Name your poison. Like in anything else in life, all guns are a study in the art of compromise. Large calibers = big holes, but come with (more) expensive rounds and fewer […]
In my last post, I laid out what I plan to do for the next 30 days. Before we begin, I think it bears a few words about how I decided on the gun I’ll carry, as well as my criteria, as this may have some bearing on your own decisions, if you’re evaluating the […]
Sometimes I just get a “feeling.” Like the first time I ever stood in front of a classroom and realized I wanted to teach. Or the night I met a certain tall brunette. Every once in a while, for reasons that usually can’t be explained, something is just right, and in a moment of wonderful […]
This is not the first time Lynch HUMMER has gained national publicity with its “free gun” with your vehicle purchase scheme. But it could well be the last, as the HUMMER brand fades into trivia-questionland. “Browning and Hummer are prestigious brands and American Icons,” Jim Lynch asserts in a press release. “Bringing them together is […]
Browning PR manager Scott Grange tells TTAG that the high-end sporting gun market has rolled over and died. “Over-and-under guns that cost over eight thousand dollars are not selling, period.” Good thing, then, that Browning doesn’t sell firearms aimed at the top end of the market. Bad thing that they don’t make assault rifles, though. […]
