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  • #1
    -hanko
    CGN/CGSSA Contributor
    CGN Contributor
    • Jul 2002
    • 14174

    Happy Birthday...

    ...to John Moses Browning.
    True wealth is time. Time to enjoy life.

    Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy schit...what a ride"!!

    Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain

    A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. Charles Doran
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    • #2
      SkyHawk
      I need a LIFE!!
      • Sep 2012
      • 23420
      Happy Birthday JMB!!


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        • #3
          Dan_Eastvale
          Calguns Addict
          • Apr 2013
          • 8998
          And no GOOGLE doodle.

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            • #4
              sealocan
              Calguns Addict
              • Mar 2012
              • 9939
              Two John Moses Browning stories I remember...

              One time when he was shooting with his brothers he noticed that the tall grass, that his family was shooting through, moved with every shot. He surmised that he could use that gas's force energy to cycle the action on a manual repeating firearm, making it a fully automatic or semi-automatic gun under its own power.

              The other one was that he thought that pump / slide action was superior to lever action designs.
              He should know, he was the main person coming up with most of the early actions of both of those types of designs.
              I think it had something to do with the fact that you could keep your trigger hand and trigger finger in a steady location on the gun and possibly you could shoot easier from a prone position.

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                • #5
                  -hanko
                  CGN/CGSSA Contributor
                  CGN Contributor
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 14174
                  Originally posted by sealocan
                  Two John Moses Browning stories I remember...

                  One time when he was shooting with his brothers he noticed that the tall grass, that his family was shooting through, moved with every shot. He surmised that he could use that gas's force energy to cycle the action on a manual repeating firearm, making it a fully automatic or semi-automatic gun under its own power.

                  The other one was that he thought that pump / slide action was superior to lever action designs.
                  He should know, he was the main person coming up with most of the early actions of both of those types of designs.
                  I think it had something to do with the fact that you could keep your trigger hand and trigger finger in a steady location on the gun and possibly you could shoot easier from a prone position.
                  I definitely prefer a slide gun v. a lever action.
                  True wealth is time. Time to enjoy life.

                  Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy schit...what a ride"!!

                  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain

                  A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. Charles Doran

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                    • #6
                      BakoJ
                      top poster @ utahguns.net
                      CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                      • Dec 2012
                      • 2292
                      Some JMB Museum, Ogden UT, goodness.

                      By the way, the museum also houses Browning's car collection, which was beautiful.
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                      sweet jesus, the subject matter experts are 97!
                      Isaiah 41:10
                      So do not fear, for I am with you;
                      do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
                      I will strengthen you and help you;
                      I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

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                        • #7
                          200Apples
                          -DVC- Mojave Lever Crew
                          CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 7217
                          Gah! I'm a day late!

                          My 31-year-old son was born January 23, too. Something to remark on, since most of my favorite firearms were conceived by The Master. Those, and of course Marlin lever carbines in addition to JMB's wonderful 1892.

                          On my way to Montana, June 2019...

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