Browning B15

[Towngun]

The Custom Browning is an old A1 refurbished and restocked, often with sideplates. The work is completed in Belgium by outworkers and then resold as a Custom Browning at circa £10K. Nice as they are they are still a refurbished gun. Browning have renamed their range of guns to J M Browning to avoid the confusion over the wording "Custom".

 

Now on that basis and in view of the price range the B15 surely must be the better option. A brand new B725 with all the benefits of CNC plus all of the benefits of skilled Browning workers.

[TDS]

The Custom Browning is an old A1 refurbished and restocked, often with sideplates. The work is completed in Belgium by outworkers and then resold as a Custom Browning at circa £10K. Nice as they are they are still a refurbished gun. Browning have renamed their range of guns to J M Browning to avoid the confusion over the wording "Custom".

 

Now on that basis and in view of the price range the B15 surely must be the better option. A brand new B725 with all the benefits of CNC plus all of the benefits of skilled Browning workers.

 

That is totally wrong...Custom B25 Brownings are made and finished in the FN factory Liege Belgium , new , from scratch

A Browning A1 refinished to a higher grade spec is still an A1 and it is fraudulently illegal to try to pass it off as anything otherwise

You can not call a refinished A1 , for example , a B4 or C3 , etc.

Edited June 8, 2016 by TDS

[B25Modelman]

The Custom Browning is an old A1 refurbished and restocked, often with sideplates. The work is completed in Belgium by outworkers and then resold as a Custom Browning at circa £10K. Nice as they are they are still a refurbished gun. Browning have renamed their range of guns to J M Browning to avoid the confusion over the wording "Custom".

 

Now on that basis and in view of the price range the B15 surely must be the better option. A brand new B725 with all the benefits of CNC plus all of the benefits of skilled Browning workers.

Custom B25's now start at the B2G which as we all know is a fancy A1 as all B25's are and have been for years. They certainly ain't refurbed A1's

 

That is totally wrong...Custom B25 Brownings are made and finished in the FN factory Liege Belgium , new , from scratch

A Browning A1 refinished to a higher grade spec is still an A1 and it is fraudulently illegal to try to pass it off as anything otherwise

But some do and gun shops at that. I have seen an A1 polished and a little engraving added here and there and called a B1.

Edited June 8, 2016 by B25Modelman

[ChrisAsh]

All this over a gun which will most likely stay in the gun safe for 50 weeks of the year and only come out for a couple of shoots to impress clients

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, just had a looksy on the web, very nice gun/s but i doubt if i would buy even if i had £10,000, talking of browning i am sure a keeper then friend bought a very early B25 about 1960 to1965, sure he paid over a £1,000 but. then i do expect he still has or handed down to his keeper son, it was a classic in those days

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, just had a looksy on the web, very nice gun/s but i doubt if i would buy even if i had £10,000, talking of browning i am sure a keeper then friend bought a very early B25 about 1960 to1965, sure he paid over a £1,000 but. then i do expect he still has or handed down to his keeper son, it was a classic in those days

hello, not sure if it was a B25 maybe someone could say what models were sold back then? i know it had a plain action and sold as a game gun.

[archi]

Pretty certain I have read that A1s go back to the custom shop in Belgium and come back with high grade wood, re engraved and blues barrels etc.

Then sold as second hand Belgium B25 customs for around £10j

FA Anderson have a lot of these for sale and I think this is where I had read about it in the past

[oldypigeonpopper]

Pretty certain I have read that A1s go back to the custom shop in Belgium and come back with high grade wood, re engraved and blues barrels etc.

Then sold as second hand Belgium B25 customs for around £10j

FA Anderson have a lot of these for sale and I think this is where I had read about it in the past

hello, would it have been an A1 he bought 1960/ 1965. cheers

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, would it have been an A1 he bought 1960/ 1965. cheers

hello, just looked on F A Anderson web site have browning O/Us referenced as B25 A1?

[TDS]

Why would Browning start tarting up basic old guns and selling them as customs when there is a couple of years wait for a new ordered gun..

I am sure I read an article in a shooting magazine many years ago , possibly Sporting gun , about basic A1s being tarted up and sold as higher grade,

with a warning of buyer beware..these were not factory refurbed

Browning has a ledger of each individual gun and unlikely they would go back possibly up to 1933 and change the entries..an A1 will always be an A1

I can remember as a teenager looking at Brownings in the early 1960s through the window of Fletchers of Gloucester and wanting one ...not possible

on my Saturday morning wages of 10/- working for the local butcher..also from memory they were under £200

Just looked at an old shooting times from 1970( older ones are in the loft) to see if I was not dreaming and found a secondhand B1 Trap for £185 and a new A1 trap for £185 at J Wheater , gunmaker , Hull

New AYAs £46...not a great choice of guns nearly 50 years ago

Edited June 8, 2016 by TDS

[B25Modelman]

worth a read.

 

http://www.browning.com/news/articles/brief-history-browning-legendary-miroku-factory.html

 

I am not 100% sure when the B25 name appeared but am fairly sure it was European driven...B for Browning and 25 for 1925 when the action design was conceived. I would assume B15 means Browning 2015.

 

Early brochure,

 

 

Edited June 8, 2016 by B25Modelman