Browning BDM 9mm info

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Hey guys, just picked this up off of a friend's relative. Rowling BDM 9mm. Not alot of info our there other than it has a DAO and DA/SA switch on the slide. Anyone have any experience with one? Anyone collect oddball Brownings? Any info would be appreciated

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Nice looking pistol, looks like it's part of the sig/browning collaboration era.....?

Edit, just did a quick search and it looks like there was no direct sig involvement. I guess the novel idea of a dual action design was just a bit to much for the intended LEO buyers and given the relatively simplicity of glocks .
 
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I remember when those came out. I maintained a subscription to Guns & Ammo magazine 1986-1992, and it was in there somewhere as I remember seeing the writeup. My impression was the modern wondernines were causing the Hi-Power to lose market share, and this was one of the efforts they made to turn the ship around. It didn't work and the design didn't last.
 
That's about the end of what I can find online also. Can't find another one in Canada for sale, and only found one in the US for sale either. Hard to put a proper value on it.
 
That's about the end of what I can find online also. Can't find another one in Canada for sale, and only found one in the US for sale either. Hard to put a proper value on it.
 
It has me curious, so I wandered the internet a little and found a Wikipedia entry, a Youtube review, a Wiley Clapp article, a couple of mentions by lesser known gunwriters, and two for sale stateside, one for $700 and one for $900.

Also this little tidbit: according to one of the articles, the BDM was developed in hopes of getting a contract with the FBI. When it wasn't selected, the gun was offered commercially only in the USA and Canada, nowhere else.

Any comment I saw from someone who actually claimed to have one was overwhelmingly positive.
 
I've always thought those were really neat. Especially with how you can #### the hammer on revolver mode, instead of being purely double action only.
 
Yes I owned one for a while about 20 years ago....not a bad pistol at all....has a plastic trigger I believe which was its least popular part...very thin grips due to unique construction...was trialed by the US secret Service as I recall....mags may be hard to find...parts not sure
 
BattleRife said:
I remember when those came out. I maintained a subscription to Guns & Ammo magazine 1986-1992, and it was in there somewhere as I remember seeing the writeup. My impression was the modern wondernines were causing the Hi-Power to lose market share, and this was one of the efforts they made to turn the ship around. It didn't work and the design didn't last.
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this. When the 9mm crunchen tickers were the hot new thing, Browning brought out this. - dan
 
If it was me, I wouldn't shoot it; it's a collector piece, not a shooter, and there is a Browning collector out there who would love to have it, and who will pay the price.

A well-advertised auction is the right place to find the right buyer, and the right price.
 
There was a time when there was a trend to create double action versions of traditionally single action designs.

The BDM was one of those. I gotta say I much prefer it's lines to the Colt Double Eagle!

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Have you taken it to the range yet?


Not yet, did the deal this weekend and got the transfer but it is physically 250km away. Will pick it up middle of next week. Seeing the history it may simply get posted in the EE for someone who collects
 
When I was 14 and seen the 3rd Matrix, A BDM was the top of my pistol want list. By 18 it had faded to a distant memory.

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There was a time when there was a trend to create double action versions of traditionally single action designs.

The BDM was one of those. I gotta say I much prefer it's lines to the Colt Double Eagle!

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Bdm is better looking, but the DE was available in 10mm and 45 acp. That puts it ahead in my book. - dan
 
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