Browning BPS pump question?

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What does the dial that says S or R in front of the trigger guard for? Zero info in the manual.
 
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I own 5 bps shotguns none have this dial you describe But the trap version has a magazine cut off feature located where the mag tube joins the receiver, making the gun easier to load single when shooting trap. These are exellent guns you can't go wrong buying a bps.
 
bunny said:
I own 5 bps shotguns none have this dial you describe But the trap version has a magazine cut off feature located where the mag tube joins the receiver, making the gun easier to load single when shooting trap. These are exellent guns you can't go wrong buying a bps.
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I have older 'hunter' BPSs. They have the cutoff. 'S' is single, 'R' is repeater.
 
Well you learn something every day,I did not know the 'hunters' ever came with a cutoff mine is an old one but obviosly not old enough. A great feature I wish they all still had.
 
bunny said:
Well you learn something every day,I did not know the 'hunters' ever came with a cutoff mine is an old one but obviosly not old enough. A great feature I wish they all still had.
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How old is yours? I bought mine when I was 13. :) That would be in 1981. :eek: I remember, at that time, they really pushed the feature in the adds.
 
I don't know the exact date mine was made, I will have to look it up also want to find the year they first started making them. I actualy have two 12 gauge hunter models now both with invector chokes. The second one I unpacked this morning [I bought it of a CGNer out east] It has a 32" barrel. Does your 1981 model have chokes or is it fixed.
Also just wundering if you've had time to look into those new Ithacas
 
Well I just got off the Browning website, one of mine I bought six years ago and the second I unpacked this morning, both were made in 1989 with only a difference of 95 in the numbers. If they made more than 95 in a day of production they could of been made the same day, cool. They started making them in 1977 so I geuss mine aren't as old as I thought. I wunder when they dropped the cutoff feature.
 
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I wunder when they dropped the cutoff feature.
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I do not know when. but I suspect the reason was that they discovered that it was really not that difficult to load as a single shot without this feature. I remember one old smith telling me. "I get more of them gawd damned things in because they do not cycle and I have to interupt my work and tell them that it is a special feature and there is no money in that":(

Actually I was the guy that delivered such a gun to the smith.:redface: A buddy delivered it to me at a shoot and said that he had just got it and it would not cycle. I delivered it to my smith cause he wasn't close to one. I did not examine the gun and had known of this feature, but forgot. Could have saved a couple hundred miles of travel and me the embarasment. I will never forget again:D
 
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