Browning BLR Black Label Takedown, 16 Inch Barrel

[dukecrab]

Browning BLR Black Label Takedown, 16 Inch Barrel

when this can come into Canada.....want one!

http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail.asp?fid=003B&cid=034&tid=026#center


Caliber

308 Win With Flash Hider




Barrel Length

16"




Overall Length

34"

 

[HeadDamage]

WTF?

I was expecting a nice short packable hunting rifle.... this, this is something that I would expect from mossberg

 

[Cole]

What an abortion!! I thought mossberg had cornerd the market on ugly? Guess I was wrong!!��

 

[dirtybarry]

Looks weird with the wood stock. Kinda like something the Borg would use. I much prefer the stainless take down version. With the laminate stock, it's just ###y.

 

[Bartledan]

Now if only BLRs didn't have triggers like using a steel spoon to stir a tin cup full of pea gravel.

 

[kamlooky]

Whooooot, it's gartzs that marshmeller roasting thingie at the end of the barrel.

 

[stvnbrg]

Lol!!

 

[smitty091]

Nope

 

[keith mokry]

Would be nice if it would have a peep sight system and hopefully most of the rails and flash hider are removable. There takedown version is one of the best being simple

 

[Hitzy]

They needed something to match what they did to the BAR.....

 

[wasrupzuk]

I actually don't mind some of it...
The takedown is handy.
The black is OK but I prefer stainless.
The Stock is nice.
The short barrel is entertaining.
The multiple scope rails are workable- I could remove the one I don't use.
The caliber I can live with but might choose another if options were available.
But the side rails and flash hider are horrible.
No thanks, especially considering the MSRP...

 

[bcsteve]

Probably good for tactical tasking.

 

[98ssuck]

Take the rails off and the muzzle brake. Put some irons on it and you have a pretty nice trapperish carbine.

 

[Deuce-deuce]

Flash hider and rails gotta go...

 

[jjohnwm]

The side rail and the flash hider are useless, but I think the other rails are a good idea. I had a takedown BLR set up with rails on both receiver and barrel like that, and it was a fantastic hunting rifle. I had a scout scope and a regular scope set up in QD rings, both sighted in and ready to mount depending on the task at hand. That was one versatile, compact, easy-to-pack gun...they can't all be classics. Once you get over the belly-aching about how it's not a "real" lever gun, you realize just how practical a flat-sided, detachable-mag, fast-cycling rifle like this is.

Don't forget: this was state-of-the-art assault weaponry only a century-and-a-quarter ago!

 

[kamlooky]

Take all that goofie chit off it and I could own one.

 

[Sun_and_Steel_77]

Take one of the ugliest factory rifles ever produced and make it even more hideous.
The marketing team at Browning really outdid themselves with this steaming turd.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Who is gonna be the first loser in the trailer park with one of these?

 

[steyrman]

You think Browning would have remembered the lesson Colt learned back in the 60's, 3 prong muzzle brakes get hung up in vegetation. Or maybe I am looking at this the wrong way, those 3 prongs may just be "Mini" bayonets in keeping with the Mossberg "Para-Military" look.

 

[Snapshot]

I agree it is dreadfully ugly but think about places where you can hunt hogs at night and there might be some purpose to all the rails (e.g. NVG / illumination).

I don't usually think of a lever action for this type of shooting but I suppose it could do the job if for some reason an AR10 or similar wasn't feasible.