.....Jonathan Browning Cylinder Repeater. Image from a great article on Jonathan Browning by William C. Montgomery;
.....Jonathan Browning Cylinder Repeater. Image from a great article on Jonathan Browning by William C. Montgomery;
John Moses Browning - the patron saint of freedom, and self defense. Many great miracles have been worked in his name.
If traveling in the Salt Lake, Utah area take the time to drive north to Ogden, UT. The awesome Railroad and Browning Museum is located in the downtown area at the Railroad Station. The items in this outstanding museum are a sight to see.
Big deal...Thomas Edison was almost completely self-educated.
Winchester and Colt manufactured Browning's designs. Browning established a strong working relationship with Fabrique Nationale in Herstal, Belgium. Browning designs were marketed in Europe, Asia, and South America under the FN logo and in North America under the Browning logo. Browning passes away in Herstal, Belgium, in 1926 while working on his last great pistol — the P35 Hi-Power.
That was his daddy’s rifle design. John Moses was good, but making that rifle at 3 years old might have been out of even his reach.
I went to the museum in Ogden once. There were some very old museum volunteer ladies watching the place. Way in the back was a WWI display with a 1917 and other goodies and a velvet rope in front of it. Shortly after I was there, someone walked in, leaned over, and plucked that fully operational belt fed machine gun off the display and walked out. I hope they upped their security after that.
Materials science had to be fairly rudimentary back then as well, but Browning designs are not known for blowing up.
I am proud to own three of his designs, two of them antiques by now.
Great short article on the genius!
I read a biography of him once. My favorite story was when he was a Mormon missionary in Georgia, I think. Back then they lived off the charity of others and sometimes there wasn’t much charity so he and his partner were looking pretty shabby. In a store window they saw a new Winchester that he had designed and sold before he went on his mission. He hadn’t seen the finished product so he asked the store owner if he could look at it. No. Get out of here, you bums.
Y’all best just bend one knee, and thank your lucky stars, when you mention THE NAME THAT SHOULD BE NAMED MUCH!
Aside from machine guns, heavy autonmatic rifles, and shotguns, where y’all think that most American icon, the G.I. 1911 .45ACP semiautomatic pistol, came from?
Where do you think the ‘other most used military semiautomatic pistol’, the Browning/FN Hi-Power (P35), got it’s start?
Through the writings of the late and great Stephen A. Camp, BHP guru, I own two of these beauties.
I used to shoot Junior NRA on Cape Cod/Otis AFB, in the 1960’s, shooting the 1911. Now, the recoil is just that, too much, so I dialed down to 9mm Parabellum, and the Browning Hi Power.
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Johnathan was John Brownings father... also a fine gunsmith... you can visit his home/museum in Navou , Ill.
John Moses Browning was a god and a patriot. I’m proud to say that at one time, back before a tragic boating accident, I owned several of his designs.
High quality and beautiful in their simplicity and reliability.
Lady Liberty owes a lot to JMB.
I read somewhere that John Browning basically pioneered Human Engineering. He used cadevors to get the interface of his firearm designs to fit the human body. He would open up the various parts of the body such as arms and hands to be sure that the firearm fit the body without strain or joint damage. He was truly an American treasure!