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Browning Arms Company was founded in 1880 by the American John Moses Browning, one of the most, if not the most prolific and influential firearm inventor of all time, with the help of his brothers, in Ogden, Utah. A large portion of John Browning's rifle designs have been acquired and produced by other big-name companies, like Winchester, Colt, Remington, Fabrique Nationale of Belgium, and Miroku. Among his most famous guns produced were the 1895 Colt Peacemaker machine gun, the Browning automatic rifle, the .45-caliber pistol, a variety of .30- and .50-caliber machine guns used in World War II; and the Browning Automatic-5 shotgun first introduced in 1902 and still produced to this day. Beside firearms, Browning is also a manufacturer of various other products, such as gun knives, shooting accessories, bicycles, and clothing. In 1977 the Belgian firearms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale (FN) purchased the Browning Company. In 1987 the US Repeating Arms Company (Winchester) was purchased from its former owners. The Winchester brand (licensed from Olin Corporation) was acquired at the same time by FN. In 1990, Société Générale sold the FN company to GIAT Industries.
In 1997, the entire FN family of companies (including Browning and the Winchester) was bought from GIAT by the government of a Belgian region named Waloon and was renamed to Groupe Herstal.
Browning A-Bolt Shotgun (Browning A-Bolt 12 Gauge Slug Gun) is a bolt-action repeating shotgun first introduced in 1995. It is built on Browning’s A-Bolt II action and was offered with either a fully rifled barrel or a smoothbore. As Browning says, it was “designed to look, shoot and feel like a rifle to give you the advantage when hunting deer with slug”.
It is built around a bolt with three locking lugs that lock into the front of the rifle’s steel receiver. It features preinstalled iron sights, a detachable magazine holding up to two cartridges and a hinged floorplate which enables quick reloading. The shotgun was discontinued after only 4 years on the market, in 1999.
Figure 1: Browning A-Bolt Shotgun. Source: https://www.browning.com/products/firearms/shotguns/a-bolt/discontinued/a-bolt-shotgun-hunter.html
Browning A-Bolt Shotgun is chambered for the following calibers:
Browning A-Bolt Shotgun is available in the following variants:
Stalker
Hunter
Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity
Browning A-Bolt Shotgun must have four holes drilled into its receiver for mounting purposes, as it does not come with pre-drilled holes.
Figure 2: The receiver of Browning A-Bolt, chambered for 12 ga (Source: https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/browning--a-bolt-shotguns/browning---a-bolt-shotgun---12-ga-.cfm?gun_id=101327269#lg-2)
Figure 3: Browning A-Bolt Shotgun receiver
A: 21.84 mm
B: 79.35 mm
C: 21.84 mm
BHU: /
Ø: 6-48
R1: /
R2: /
The necessary condition for rifles to have one-piece mounts interchangeable is that the mounting surfaces of these rifles match in every dimension. Rifles that have one-piece mounts interchangeable with Browning A-Bolt Shotgun are the following:
For two-piece mounts to be interchangeable the mounting surfaces of the rifles must match in every dimension except the B dimension which can vary. This is because the distance between the two pieces of the mount is not fixed. Rifles that have two-piece mounts interchangeable with Browning A-Bolt Shotgun are the following:
We recommend this DNZ complete one-piece mount.
This Picatinny rail from EGW is the only one available.
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