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Category - Browning Belgium Rifles - Safari - Browning Belgium Rifles

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Browning Belgium Rifles - Safari
Browning Belgium Rifles

1963 (pre-salt wood) Browning High Power Safari with Sako Action 243 Win 22" Barrel in Excellent Condition

Description:
Highly desirable clean 1963 (pre-salt wood) Browning High Power Safari with Sako Action in Excellent condition.  The bluing is excellent but shows some thinning on the floorplate and bolt knob.  The wood shows a number of small handling marks and the varnish is thinning a bit under the forend.  Checkering is in great shape.  The Sako action is smooth as butter and the buttplate is in excellent shape.

Description:
Highly collectible and rare.   

The High-Power was offered in three grades, including Safari, Medallion, and Olympian.   The Safari is a beauty with select high-grade Walnut stock, a Belgium-made pencil barrel, and a mirror bore.  The teardrop Monte Carlo cheekpiece is set on a hand-cut checkered stock with fiddleback figure throughout. Rifles in most calibers included a steel recoil lug, and the stock was fit by hand and bedded to a specific barreled action to maximize accuracy. The trigger guard and floorplate is engraved.  The rust bluing is beautifully colored with a deep gloss. The High-Power rifles were available in popular calibers from .243 Winchester to .458 Winchester Magnum; however, the majority were for .30-06-length (3.340 inches) and .375 H&H-length (3.600 inches) cartridges. Thus, 243 Win caliber is desirable and rare in the High-Power models.  Short action cartridges (.243 and .308 Winchester) were produced in limited quantities. Browning chose instead to offer these cartridges, as well as the .222 Remington, .222 Remington Magnum, and .22-250 Remington, for Sako Finnish-built rifles that have a reputation for top-notch accuracy. 

Economics tragically began to take its toll on the High-Power rifle. In short, the cost to produce the commercial Mauser ’98 action was high, and competing companies were developing new manufacturing methods and began designing rifles that cost notably less to produce. Even though sales remained strong, it was an expensive rifle to produce, and by 1974-1975 the last of the Browning High-Power rifles were imported to the U.S. (though they continued to be sold throughout Europe into the 1980s).  The bolt offers controlled feeding with a strong claw extractor, making the action especially popular with big- and dangerous-game hunters.  

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Curio/Relic: Yes
Rifle Caliber: .243 Winchester
Manufacturer: Browning
Model: Safari High Power
Serial Number: 385Z3
Condition: Excellent
Metal Condition: Excellent
Wood Condition: Very Good Plus
Bore Condition: Excellent
Action: Bolt
Triggers: crisp single
Stock: Walnut
Butt Pad: Factory Pad
LOP: 13 7/8
Finish: Oil Gloss
Sights: Drilled & Tapped
Manufacture Date: 1963
Engraving: Yes
Extras: Rings and Base