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CREATION OF THE BROWNING BPS SHOTGUN

When we take a close look at the splendid line of shotguns offered by Browning, we observe a high quality line of guns ranging from the expensive single shot Trap guns, to the popular over/under double guns such as the beautiful Citori line In the autoloading field, Browning has been a popular choice of shooters ever since John Moses Browning invented the first autoloading shotgun way back in 1911. This world-famous gun was produced in Belgium by Fabrique Nationale as the Browning Auto 5, and by Remington in this country as the Remington Model 11 and the Savage Model 720 et al.

Bob with the original BPS design blueprint drawing in the background.

Oddly enough, there was not a pump shotgun in the company’s line since Mr. Browning sold the manufacturing rights for the initial design of a pump action shotgun to Remington in 1915 (patent 1143170, originally issued to John M. Browning). In fact, the pump shotgun was missing from the Browning sales inventory until the introduction of the BPS in 1977 – an absence from the rapidly-growing pump action gun market for 62 years!