Help on an Older Browning

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I just acquired an older Browning Superposed Lightning O&U. I want to find out everything I can about it.

The serial number (barrel and receiver matched) is 94246.

What are my options and resources?

Thanks in advance.
 
Ned Schwing authored a good book entitled "Browning Superposed: John M. Browning's Last Legacy". If you can't borrow it from a local library, you might consider acquiring a copy.
 
By serial no. She was made in 1961,

http://www.browning.com/customerservice/dategun/detail.asp?id=42

All blued receiver = grade 1
Silver receiver would be one of several higher grades
Barrel length ? Choking ?

Owners Manual

http://media.browning.com/pdf/om/superposedmanual.pdf

Service manual

http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/ctgy/browning-superposed-field-service-manual

Some History

http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/ctgy/browning-superposed-history


+1 on the Ned Schwing Browning Superposed book, I got one many years ago but they are very expensive to buy these days.

Enjoy one of the finest production Over/Unders of the past century.

Tim.
 
Thanks ! Receiver is blued , barrels are full over modified and 31-3/4 inches total length--- does that make it 29" barrels? The step at the forward end of the chambers is 3-1/8" in from the end---is this a standard dimension for chambers for 2-3/4" cartridges? The ventilated rib is 5/8" wide and has two ivory beads; a small one ( 1/16" dia.) @ 14" from the breech, and the larger one (1/8" dia.) @ 3/8" from the muzzle. The buttstock has what I believe is called a raised comb. These features lead me to believe that this is a Broadway Trap model.
 
Sounds right. If you're measuring the barrels from the breech to the muzzle, those are 30" barrels - trap dimensions. The chambers are, indeed, 2 3/4".
 
I measured the total barrel length with the barrels removed from the receiver, so the 31-3/4" length includes the cartridge chamber. As you say this makes it 30" barrels, I assume that trap dimensions measure from the muzzle to a point which includes the forward one inch of the cartridge?
 
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