Modified my Browning 95
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Modified my Browning 95
Here is picture of my Browning Model 95 after I added a Williams Fool Proof 71 to it, and put a Lyman dovetail filler block in the open sight barrel dovetail and I had the stock cut and added an Old English Decelerator pad to replace the slick steel buttplate I never liked.
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Finally! Whew! I had to repost the picture in photobucket and down grade the quality some more, at least that seems to have worked
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You must hunt out of state.......2ndovc wrote:95s are my favorites. I got this one cheap years ago because it wasn't all original.
Fits me just fine. I've taken a pile of white tail with the old '06
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Anyway, I like this gun a lot better now. It's funny how sometimes, just a few minor changes can make a gun feel like a totally different animal. Getting rid of that flat and slick metal buttplate, made the gun feel totally different when I shoulder it, and of course the sights are better too.
It still has the original front sight, but I may have to change that, It maynot be tall enough, I havn't shot it yet since the change.
It still has the original front sight, but I may have to change that, It maynot be tall enough, I havn't shot it yet since the change.
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Michigan and PA. In Ohio I hunt with a revolver. I'd sure like to see the Pistol cal. Carbines become legal.BlaineG wrote:You must hunt out of state.......2ndovc wrote:95s are my favorites. I got this one cheap years ago because it wasn't all original.
Fits me just fine. I've taken a pile of white tail with the old '06
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I finally got to test my Browning tonight, when I got home from work. I didn't have much time, but I wanted to find out if the front sight was going to have to replaced with a taller one. I knew it would be close, so I set up a quick target, and grabbed a small screwdriver to make adjustments.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see my first shot, at about 40yds hit dead center in a 1 inch square I had made with a magic marker on a cardboard box. I never touched the sights. I didn't have time to do it right, so I just set up a few rocks at various ranges out to about 75 yards and busted every one. I will leave well enough alone until I have time to set up a proper target, but I think the sights are going to be fine, using my favorite 220 gr silver tip load.
Also, I am very happy with the Old English Decelerator recoil pad. It just totaly changed the personality of this gun's handling, as opposed to that flat, slick steel buttplate. That factory buttplate on those guns, just had to of been about the worst buttplate choice ever put on a gun.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see my first shot, at about 40yds hit dead center in a 1 inch square I had made with a magic marker on a cardboard box. I never touched the sights. I didn't have time to do it right, so I just set up a few rocks at various ranges out to about 75 yards and busted every one. I will leave well enough alone until I have time to set up a proper target, but I think the sights are going to be fine, using my favorite 220 gr silver tip load.
Also, I am very happy with the Old English Decelerator recoil pad. It just totaly changed the personality of this gun's handling, as opposed to that flat, slick steel buttplate. That factory buttplate on those guns, just had to of been about the worst buttplate choice ever put on a gun.
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Thats OK, Bikes are cool too---you know us boys gots to have our toys!Lastmohecken wrote:[
Woops! I don't know why I got a picture of my Wide Glide up instead of my rifle. I guess I will have to try again. This photobucket deal does not work very good for me.
Its my son's Street Glide with me on it. Notice the kickstand? If it don't have a lever, I can't operate it.
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Actually, I think maybe the worst one is the one that came on my Browning B78 singleshot in 45/70. It's made like a darned fishhook on the bottom and believe me, you never want to fire that gun without getting that buttplate set just right on you shoulder, actually it needs to be, almost off of the shoulder with that fishhook hanging down in your armpit.Wrangler John wrote:No, the crescent buttplate on the 1886 is worse. Ouch!