What kind of browning do i have?
- Thread starter fredqc
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Browning BAR, the scope and mounts are junk... excellent rifle if the bore is good.
What kind of values are you looking for? How much you should pay? How much can you get for them quickly? How much can you get for them at top dollar eventually?
What kind of values are you looking for? How much you should pay? How much can you get for them quickly? How much can you get for them at top dollar eventually?
You have an original Browning BLR - also referred to as a pre-81 BLR - a great rifle in amazingly good condition. The magazine is worth almost as much as the rifle. 
As mentioned by Guntech the other is a BAR , in good to very-good condition. I also agree the scope is a near-worthless.
As mentioned by Guntech the other is a BAR , in good to very-good condition. I also agree the scope is a near-worthless.
They are both unique in their own stance.
The BLR is in great shape.
I've seen them all over the map for $$.
I'd gamble $650 for a price.
Might be worth more, but time would be on the buyers side.
The BAR is also in great shape, but the suitcase apparatus on top needs to removed.
That's a back east sort of contraption.
It is in wonderful shape other than that peskie caliber.
You might fetch $750 for it, but not from me.
Nice ketch if you garnnerd them for a g-note.
The BLR is in great shape.
I've seen them all over the map for $$.
I'd gamble $650 for a price.
Might be worth more, but time would be on the buyers side.
The BAR is also in great shape, but the suitcase apparatus on top needs to removed.
That's a back east sort of contraption.
It is in wonderful shape other than that peskie caliber.
You might fetch $750 for it, but not from me.
Nice ketch if you garnnerd them for a g-note.
You have an original Browning BLR - also referred to as a pre-81 BLR - a great rifle in amazingly good condition. The magazine is worth almost as much as the rifle.
As mentioned by Guntech the other is a BAR , in good to very-good condition. I also agree the scope is a near-worthless.
Never could understand guys who'd mount a piece of crap like that Tasco on a good rifle.
Worthless junk that I wouldn't use as a car jack handle.
I would much prefer hunting with a $300 rifle and $400 scope than a thousand dollar rifle and a $50 scope.
Ar180shooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Ottawa, ON
I would much prefer hunting with a $300 rifle and $400 scope than a thousand dollar rifle and a $50 scope.
x2. I'd rather have a Stevens 200 with a Leupold VX2 3-9x40, than a BAR with see through rings and an old Tasco...
The Blr is it a 16.5 inch barrel ? I have the same gun in .243 unfortunately mine took a bath in Dri-z-air sludge when I was moving after my divorce ... yours is in much better shape , they are nice guns and my .243 shoots very well even though it carries an air of heavily used bush gun now a days. Value is probably fairly low as they are not really sought after guns.
steve-o1979
Regular
- Location
- Nova Scotia
That's true about the back east sort of contraption. I am in the east, and you don't know how many rigs like that I have seen. Until recent years, nobody cared at all about the quality of optics... They were simply a set of crosshairs for people that didn't like open sights. There still ain't many people that will pay as much, or more, for a scope as they did for the gun, but at least they are paying $300-$400 instead of less than $100 for a scope lol
Original BLR made in Japan???
Yes, while the first of these were built in Belgium the majority came out of Japan. Some collectors place a premium on the European- built versions.
If the condition is a as good as it appears in the pictures I would not sell it for under $750.00
