Value 1971 Browning blr

Don't know much about the durability of BLR aluminum receivers, but had a WIN. .22 semi. that my Firearm Safety students wore out so the operating handle pin to lock the action open would no longer hold in the worn out hole in the receiver. I scrappd it and got a Lakefield Mossberg with steel receiver that takes a lickin but keeps on tickin. My personal opinion of BLR's is that if the trigger could be made light enough so you couldn't hang an axe on it when cocked it might not be a bad rifle.
 
I just got back from a week in the bush and took a nice deer with my lightweight takedown......in aluminum! Used a 150 gr ballistic silvertip in 308 at 52 yrds and the deer didn't even know what happened, down before I could even reaquire with the scope. A heart lung shot will do that. I have absolutely no problem with the aluminum or the takedown for that matter. Proved to my hunting buddy who fancies himself an accurate shooter that you do not need to re-sight after taking the barrel of and re-attaching.

Technology and science boy's, sometimes the newer stuff is equal or better than the older tried and true equipment and Browning got it right on this occasion for sure.

Just my humble opinion.
 
True enough, 40 yrs should tell the tale, or then again it may just provide me with a good enough reason the update my collection :p)
 
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