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Browning Model 52

helimanheliman Member Posts: 597 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2008 in Ask the Experts
I recently purchased a Browning MOdel 52, and would like to put a peep sight on the rear and a hooded ramp on the front, like the original WInchester 52 Sporting had. What sights should I use? If I drill the barrel for the front sight, would I destroy the value of the gun? Browning drilled and tapped the receiver for the peep, but installed no sight for the front...very frustrating for anyone who does not wish to use a scope...!!
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  • helimanheliman Member Posts: 597 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How do you modify the bolt on the Browning 52 to accomodate a low scope mount? As is, the scope must be mounted absurdly high in order for the bolt to clear the occular tube...very ungainly, to say the least... Browning made these 52s as Winchester 52 reproductions, yet they left the front sight off, but the bolt retracts so high that any serious scope (other than a skinny-tubed model, like the Weaver C4) gets in the way.
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  • helimanheliman Member Posts: 597 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Need an approx. value for "as new" condition Browning Model 52, 22LR. About $650-$700 sound right? No pics, sorry. Thanks!
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  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,179 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've poked around GB off & on for one, that seems to be about right on average. At just over $600.00 I think I'd have some good regrets about not getting it. Over $700.00 and I'd grimace a bit, but I'd probably buy it.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was looking at a couple the other day, man they are nice. These were the ones with a maple stock,,,friend showed them to me,,beautiful[:)]..about right in price...should hold there value,,maybe go up..nambu
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