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Category - Browning Rifles - Semi-Auto Rimfire - Browning Belgium Rifles

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Browning Rifles - Semi-Auto Rimfire
Browning Belgium Rifles

Early 1957 Browning SA-22 Takedown w/Wheel Sight 22 Lr Pre-letter prefix w/Browning Hard Case - Excellent Condition

Description:
Early 1957 Browning Belgium made SA-22 Takedown w/Wheel Sight 22 Lr pre-letter prefix.  Comes in Browning SA-22 Airline Hard Case, key, and manual.  Extremely rare Combo.

Description:
2nd year of production with Wheel Sight.  These wheel sight guns were only produced from 1956 to 1961.  This gun is in excellent condition with a beautiful amber satin finish.  Metal is in great shape, and the furniture shows only a few small handling marks on the forend.  Hard Case is also in Excellent condition with just a couple of small marks.  Will accept a C&R licence.  

Anyone who has read about John Moses Browning will undoubtedly have come across those two iconic photographs of “le maitre”. In each, he is holding examples of his genius, the unmistakable FN Browning Auto-5 (the ‘humpback’) and the FN Browning .22” calibre Automatic Rifle. The latter became the most successful of Browning’s small calibre sporting rifles, also taking credit for being the first production semiautomatic .22” rifle.

Introduced in 1914, this blowback action self-loading rifle has an overall length of 37 inches (94cm) with a round, ‘take-down’ barrel of 19.25 inches (489mm). It was also known as the ‘Browning Semi Automatic 22’ or ‘SA-22’. A leaf rear sight with a knobbed wheel adjustment was later replaced with a simple fold-down rear sight. A small bead front sight was common to almost all models.  A tubular magazine is located in the walnut butt-stock, and, in early rifles, loading was accomplished through a port located in the top of the stock. Later versions replaced this by a side-loading port on the right side of the stock. This enabled the capacity to be raised from eight rounds of .22” LR to eleven rounds and eleven rounds of .22” Short to sixteen rounds. A cross-bolt safety is positioned at the front of the trigger guard.  The one-piece receiver has an opening at the bottom for the ejection of spent cases, with FN’s brochures claiming, “complete protection of the user from hot powder gases or defective cartridges is assured”.  The downward ejection makes it suitable for either right or left-handed shooters.  ‘Taking down’ the rifle is relatively straightforward. The barrel lock, located underneath in front of the breechblock finger piece, is pushed forward while the breechblock is moved back about a quarter of an inch. This prevents the extractor from catching during disassembly. By rotating the barrel a 90-degree turn to the left, it can now be pulled forward and out. The firing mechanism can be removed from the receiver with no need for tools. It is not uncommon to find examples where the butt-stock has been gripped, instead of the receiver, to gain extra leverage on disassembly, resulting in a split developing in the wood.  With no side ejection port, the receiver had a large “canvas” for engraving. There were six grades in total, with the higher grades including gold inlay and elaborate wood carving. 

Layawy: 1/3 down 90 days
Shipping:  $80, with insurance extra upon Buyer's request
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Curio/Relic: Yes
Rifle Caliber: .22 Long Rifle
Manufacturer: Browning
Model: SA-22 Takedown
Serial Number: 13401
Barrel Length: 19.25
Chambers: 8
Ejectors: Auto
Condition: Excellent
Metal Condition: Excellent
Wood Condition: Excellent
Bore Condition: Excellent
Action: Semi Auto
Triggers: Single
Stock: Black Walnut
Butt Pad: Factory Plate
Finish: Satin
Sights: Wheel
Manufacture Date: 1957
Engraving: Factory
Extras: Manual
Case: Browning Airline & Key
Grips: Checkered Pistol
Optic: Grooved

Price: $2,799.00
Shipping: $80.00
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