Double Auto
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'C' stands for steel receiver (the best, in my opinion); manufacture date of 1957, according to the booklet Browning Dates of Manufacture (1988).
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I haven’t seen a double auto for sale for some time, on the other hand I haven’t been looking.
I had one some years ago but only owned it for a short time. I thought it might be a good gun for my kids but as soon as I fired it I realized it probably was not a good choice, even with light target loads that thing bucked like a spring colt! I can’t really say that it kicked hard, just jumped around with muzzle rise comparable to a hump back browning.
It was the aluminum receiver version and im trying my damdest to remember what color it was, green sticks in my mind but I may be wrong, Im sure it wasn’t black. Sucks to get old and forget things.
I had one some years ago but only owned it for a short time. I thought it might be a good gun for my kids but as soon as I fired it I realized it probably was not a good choice, even with light target loads that thing bucked like a spring colt! I can’t really say that it kicked hard, just jumped around with muzzle rise comparable to a hump back browning.
It was the aluminum receiver version and im trying my damdest to remember what color it was, green sticks in my mind but I may be wrong, Im sure it wasn’t black. Sucks to get old and forget things.
A friend was looking for one last year and I searched a few auctions for him trying to find a suitable target. He’s not too computer savvy. Every auction I looked at last year, including Landsborough, had at least one. The problem is prices had doubled since I last bought one about 6 years ago. It’s my second DA and I love it. A Twentyweight so the lightest version of the three. Black receiver. Same as my Twelvette which is the middleweight version.
I think the design is pure genius. With the steel receiver the weight is just right (for me), and I only shoot light loads anyway. Everything feels right about them. I gave mine away to a son-in-law, who shoots it well. I even got to shoot it again last weekend.
Ironically, the steel receiver, the basic model, is the rarest, as production centered around the lighter alloy receivers with the funky colours.
The Browning list I have gives the serial ranges for the Double Auto production years of 1952 to 1959.
Ironically, the steel receiver, the basic model, is the rarest, as production centered around the lighter alloy receivers with the funky colours.
The Browning list I have gives the serial ranges for the Double Auto production years of 1952 to 1959.
I was lucky with this one.
One at the Enderby show.
Black with the gold filling.
Twelvette.
Long ribbed bawrill.
Looked 30”
$950.00
Tempting, but naw ‘nuff $$ in the wallit.
I had a steel DA from first year of production (2 sets of rivets in the fore end) and two barrels (SK and M) and later added a F barrel. Also picked up a Twentyweight.
Sweet handling guns. Fun to shoot Sporting Clays with the SK barrel.
There are lots of threads about them ( and good instructional videos) in Shotgun World because of all the collectors.
However I could never stop the fore end from rattling on the steel DA no matter how much I fiddled with the adjustment bushing. The fore end split on the Twentyweight on its first hunt, apparently the wood was dried/split and the recoil was too much. If I hadn't located a NOS replacement in the USA the gun would be kaput.
Ended up trading them towards a BSS Sidelock, no regrets.
Sweet handling guns. Fun to shoot Sporting Clays with the SK barrel.
There are lots of threads about them ( and good instructional videos) in Shotgun World because of all the collectors.
However I could never stop the fore end from rattling on the steel DA no matter how much I fiddled with the adjustment bushing. The fore end split on the Twentyweight on its first hunt, apparently the wood was dried/split and the recoil was too much. If I hadn't located a NOS replacement in the USA the gun would be kaput.
Ended up trading them towards a BSS Sidelock, no regrets.
That's a very good price. And sounds exactly like my first one.
Well, yeah, Webster is of course correct. But many of us have familiarized ourselves with the Kamlooky Dictionary.
Yeee-up.
Val Browning.
And this Dubbull Browning is a sweet’art.
Far as I’m concerned Webster is behind the times and knows diddle skwatt’bout current vowels, pronouns, adjectives and the sort.
So phooey to yew’n fruck’in Webster.
