Monday, January 23, 2012

They Say It's Your Birthday...

...and if he were alive today, he'd be kicking Gaston square in the Glock...

John M. Browning Day Celebrated in Utah all week.
January 23 was John Moses Browning's birthday. All of us at Browning are proud to celebrate -- along with gun enthusiasts everywhere -- the birth of the person known as "the greatest firearms inventor the world has ever known."
Browning was responsible for the following firearms:
U.S. M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
FN Browning M1899/M1900
Colt Model 1900
Colt Model 1902
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP)
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (.32 ACP)
Colt Model 1905
Remington Model 8 (1906), a long recoil semi-automatic rifle
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (.25 ACP)
Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless (.380 ACP)
FN Model 1910
U.S. M1911 pistol (.45 ACP)
Colt Woodsman pistol
Winchester Model 1885 falling-block single shot rifle
Winchester Model 1886 lever-action repeating rifle
Winchester Model 1887 lever-action repeating shotgun
Winchester Model 1890 slide-action repeating rifle (.22)
Winchester Model 1892 lever-action repeating rifle
Winchester Model 1894 lever-action repeating rifle
Winchester Model 1895 lever-action repeating rifle
Winchester Model 1897 pump-action repeating shotgun
Browning Auto-5 long recoil semi-automatic shotgun
U.S. M1917 water-cooled machine gun
U.S. M1919 air-cooled machine gun
U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)
U.S. M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun of 1921 ("Ma-Deuce"!)
Remington Model 8 semi-auto rifle
Remington Model 24 semi-auto rifle (.22) A.K.A. Browning SA-22
Browning Hi-Power
The Browning Superposed over/under shotgun
Ithaca Model 37 pump-action repeating shotgun
I have six of these; how about you?

That is all.

11 comments:

Butch Cassidy said...

- 1887 Winchester

- 1894 Winchester

- My wife lets me use the Woodsman all the time, so I will count it.

- FN 1910

- Ithaca 37

- Stevens 620 If I can count the Ithaca as a modified Browning design, I can count the 620.

I'll count the 37 and 620 as a half each and say I have five.

Dave H said...

I don't have any of them. Yet. But I could see a 1911 in my future.

Boy, wouldn't a Ma Deuce look sweet on my trailer hitch?

Stretch said...

1894 Winchester
1895 Winchester
A-5 Browning Shotgun
1911A1 (.45acp and .38 Super)
Colt Woodsman
Browning Hi-Power

Once I finish my chores I think a trip to the range is in order.
*faces Ogden and bows*

Bubblehead Les. said...

I own a Vest Pocket clone, but have access to several of those on the list. But keep in mind that the Browning Designs such as the "Falling Link" are incorporated into more pistols than you can shake your Boomstick at.

Veeshir said...

That's not even to mention the calibers he invented.

Angus McThag said...

1903 Pocket Hammerless, 1908 Pocket Hammerless, 1908 Vest Pocket, 1911.

1892 Winchester.

Not mentioned on your list is the FN-Browning 1905 Depose, nearly the same gun as the 1908 Vest Pocket.

I was responsible for the M2HB on my tank, does that count?

Skip said...

Browning Citori and two 1911s.

Lokidude said...

A pair of 1911s and a 1903 built while John himself was still drawing breath and making boomsticks.

Anonymous said...

Not too many:
Remington 81 (descended from Rem 8)
1911 - 10 or 11 (depends on if a Colt Ace kit counts)
Browning 1886 and 1886 carbine (w86 repros)
Browning 1885 and 2 BCPRs
Winchester 1892
Winchester 1894 (6 of them)
Winchester 1895
Browning A-5
Remington 24 and a later Browning SA-22
Winchester 62 (grandson of W1890)
Browning High Power (2)
Ithaca 37 (4)

Naw, the man had no impact on my life.
Cheers, Medium Sized Jake

libertyman said...

Nine unique models here. Don't forget the Auto-5 debuted as a Remington - which became the Model 11.

Ferdinand Freud said...

Do ten 1911's count?