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Browning BLR

reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2007 in Ask the Experts
Did browning ever make a takedown version in .308 from Belgium? Thanks.

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  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was wandering how accurate these rifles shoot and the difference between the ones made in japan and the ones made in belgium. Which one is more desireable and the differences between the two.[?]
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I recently purchased a new in box Browning BLR. Cal. is 30-06. According to the serial number it was made in 1993. The barrel is stamped Browning Model 81L. What does the L mean? Also does anyone have any experience with this rifle? Probably will just stay in safe but at $400 it seemed like a good deal? Thanks for your help.
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been researching some rifles to use for whitetail deer hunting in Wisconsin. I already have a 308 Remington pump and a 280 Remington Auto, but looking for something lighter to use for driving deer and serve as a youth rifle as well for my daughter's first year. Any experience with the safety and accuracy of the Browning BLR?

    I will try the managed recoil shells in the 308 this weekend which are supposed to put me in the Energy FtLb range of the 243. If this is comfortable to her, all is satisfied except for my desire for a lighter driving gun. So far I'm interested in the Browing BLRs and X-Bolts at the same 6# 8oz weight. I have yet to put my hands on a 5.5# Ruger M77 Mark II Compact yet ... any experiences with this piece?
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    have BLR 284win made in japanexelent condwhat is it worth ?
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hi. Have a browning BLR that will not release the magazine. Any suggestions? Thanks and have a great week.
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been trying to decipher a serial number for a manufacturing year on a Browing BLR .308 for a brother-in-law, and need help. I was looking at Browning's site, and the serial number on his doesn't appear to match their codes. The rifle said it was made in Japan and has what appears to be a serial number on the bottom of the receiver between the magazine and the lever. The number is 07474K57.

    Can anyone help me with the manufacturing year?

    CDM
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can anybody give me an opinion on this rifle??? handling,accuracy, functioning??? I love the idea of a .270 or 30-06 lever action but I've never handled one of these let alone fired one
  • reddnekreddnek Member Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    please tell me experts. when was the browning blr made, and then the blr 81, and what is the diferent about the 2 rifles? and price range for both guns in the 90% condition

    thanks in advance

    Terry
  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,031 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well made, reasonbly accurate but not user friendly for disassembly and cleaning (actualy reassembly). the insides look like a car transmision, and if you din't get parts in exactly the right place it don't work.
  • claysclays Member Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I consider it an excellent rifle. My primary hunting gun. I have one in 7mm08.
  • SCorversSCorvers Member Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crappy triggers.[xx(]
  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have/had one in 308,my next to the oldest son come by and picked it up for deer season about a week ago,great gun,
  • handye9handye9 Member Posts: 54 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have five BLR's. Two 308's, one 270, and two 06's (one straight stock and one pistol grip). They all shoot good. We (group of ten) hunt whitetails in North Dakota. Most years we each have multiple tags. Last year we harvested 17 deer on opening weekend, 13 were shot with a BLR 308, one was shot with BLR 06, and the other three were remington 700's.

    I prefer the straight stock over the pistol grip because it is lighter.

    We do a lot of hunting in heavy brush and woods. The 308 is shorter, lighter, and easier to carry.


    This years deer season starts two weeks from today. The BLR 270 will get it's first chance. I can't wait.
  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007
    edited November -1
    I have had them in .30-06, .308, and .22-250.

    Great rifles.

    Never had any trouble tearing them down and reassembling them.

    Doug
  • Mark TMark T Member Posts: 140 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Dad has had one for 15yrs, killed many bucks with it. Wouldn't give it up so I bought my own. Both 308, both with 2-7 Leupold compacts. I shoot 150 Nos BTs with excellent accuracy. A fine deer rifle, light, short both are straight stock.
  • bassassassin007bassassassin007 Member Posts: 87 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have three of them all are Belgian 308s. Two are new in the box and I don't shoot them. However, one I have scoped and take it out weekly. For a lever it is quite accurate, with my best groups @ 50 yards in the .2 and .3 range with some handloads (though it usually shoots in the .5 and .6 range). It is light and quick handling and has the oil finished wood which I love. The only thing I don't like is that sometimes when I load the magazine with 3 rounds, a cartridge sometimes pops out of the magazing when inserting it into the mag well. (They don't insert straight like an AR-15 or pistol mag.)

    The new ones are made in Japan, and have a different magazine which may be an improvement. Some say they are not a well made as the Belgian ones, but I can't say. They keep selling them so they are probably fine.

    Anyway, if you don't mind an occasional round falling out of the magazine I can highly recommend getting a beat up Belgian one for the brush (As one in good shape is far too pretty to take into the field).

    Dave
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