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Make: Fabrique Nationale
Model: Trombone Grade I
Year of Manufacture: 1985
Caliber: .22 LR
Action Type: Pump Action
Serial Number: 166CS01136
Markings: The left side of the barrel is marked: “BROWNING ARMS COMPANY MORGAN. UTAH & MONTREAL PQ / MADE IN BELGIUM – FFRABIQUE NATIONALE HERSTAL”. The right side of the barrel is marked “CALIBER .22 SHORT LONG & LONG RIFLE”. The serial number is on the right side of the barrel “166CS1136” The Grade 1 light scroll is engraved “L.ERNST”.
Barrel Length: 22″
Sights: The rear sight is a notch leaf and elevator sight set in a dovetail. The front sight is a dovetailed blade with a bead.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The stocks are beautifully figured with a high gloss varnish. The pistol grip is checkered. The forearm has the robs. Overall there is little bad that can be said about the wood. The Stock is in Excellent overall condition.
Type of Finish: Blue
Finish Originality: Original
Overall Condition: The rifle retains better than 97% of its metal finish. There is no erosion and no wear from cycling the action worth mentioning. There is some scratching to the magazine tube from what appears to be from being taken down. The rifle rates in Excellent overall condition.
Bore Condition: The bore is good with deep rifling and no pitting.
Mechanics: The gun functions Correctly.
Box: Box with matching end label in excellent overall condition. Three is a photocopy scanned manual in the box.
Our Assessment: These rifles were extremely limited in production. Especially in the Grade I configuration. The Box leads us to believe this rifle was manufactured sometime in the 80’s. This rifle has high grade wood, hand engraving, and checkering. There are so few things that can be said that is wrong with this gun. There are some minor scratches to the magazine tube and that is about it. This is an excellent rifle that any Browning Enthusiast would be happy to add to the collection.
The Pump Action
The pump action has long been a peculiarly North American tradition. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been much interest in the type in Europe, Australia, or Asia. I find this hard to understand, as the pump is the fastest and easiest to operate of all manual actions. Neither hand need change its grip on the rifle to operate the slide handle of a pump action.
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Colt built the Lightning pump action rifle, starting in 1884, to compete with the lever action Winchesters of the time. As I write these words, only Remington among themajor U.S. arms companies builds a pump action centerfire rifle, although Browning and Savage have also offered modern pump action rifles in recent times. And several manufacturers offer pump action .22 rimfire rifles. Both the Remington and Browning centerfire designsincorporate double action bars and a front locking, rotating bolt. Both are mechanically and visually very similar to theirrespective firms autoloading rifles (see 'The Autoloading Action'). Thedifference is basically that the shooter's arm provides the energy to cycle the action of the pumpversion, instead of expanding gas as in the autoloader.
The pump is a very natural type of action. As the rifle recoils, the shooter's weak hand strokes the rifle's forearmback, which extracts and ejects the fired brass; as the rifle comes back toward alignment with thetarget, the hand slides the forearm forward, chambering a new round and closing the bolt. Apump can be cycled almost as fast as an autoloader (even faster in some cases). Certainly, a pumpaction is no more sensitive to the build up of fouling in its mechanism than an autoloader, although is seems to be just as succeptable to freezing in very cold weather. Both types should be kept reasonably clean for reliable function. It is a shame that the pumpgun is not more popular. In North American sales, pump rifles trail the other actions.
Browning's modern pump action rifle was called the BPR. Like theautoloading BAR, its forearm fit flush to the receiver. In fact, it was a dead ringer for the popularBAR, except that its receiver was made from an aerospace aluminum alloy (like the BLR). There was a long action model chambered forthe .270 Win, 7mm Rem. Mag., .30-06 Spfd., and .300 Win. Mag. There was also a short actionmodel, chambered for the .243 Win. and the .308 Win.
Magazine capacity was 4 rounds for allstandard calibers, 3 for magnum calibers. The magazine was attached to the swing open floorplate,detachable if desired, as in the BAR and BLR. Iron sights were standard on all models. Averageweight in the standard calibers was 7 pounds 3 ounces, and overall length was 43 inches. The twopiece stock was made from select walnut, with plenty of cut checkering and a beautiful gloss finish. In allcalibers the barrel was fully free floating, with no forearm contact, to enhance accuracy. As usual with Browning rifles, the overall quality of fit andfinish was superior. In .300 Mag. the BPR may still be one of the best rifles around for hunting large or dangerous North American game, providing speed nearly equivalent to a BAR, coupled with a manually operatedaction that many hunters trust more than an autoloader.
Another modern American pump gun, manufactured from 1970 until 1981, was the Savage Model 170. This was a more economical and less sophisticated rifle than the Browning and Remington pumps. The Model 170's streamlined receiver and the shape of its forearm reminded me of a small gauge pump action shotgun. It featured a blued carbon steel barrel and receiver and an un-checkered walnut stock. It used a tubular magazine under its 22' barrel, again much like a modern pump shotgun. Calibers were .30-30 Win. and .35 Rem. There was also a carbine version with an 18.5' barrel (Model 170C) in .30-30 only.
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The Remington 7600 is directly descended from the long-running Model 760, and is very similarto the company's companion 7400 autoloader. Many of the internal parts are interchangeable. The 7600's forearm does not extend all the way back to the receiver like the 7400's does, so it iseasier to distinguish between the two than with the Browning pair. The 7600 is chambered in 5calibers: .243 Win., .270 Win., .280 Rem., .308 Win., and .30-06 Spfd. I wish it were also offered in .358 Win. The 7600 has an all steelreceiver, complete with Remington's fine-line engraving. It uses the same detachable boxmagazine as the 7400. Magazine capacity is 4 rounds in all calibers. The barrel is fully freefloating. Standard7600's come with two piece checkered walnut stocks and forearms; the buttstock has a MonteCarlo comb, which helps to align the eye with a scope. All models come standard with ironsights. The .30-06 caliber is available in a carbine model with an 18.5 inch barrel. There is also a7600 Synthetic model, with a black fiberglass reinforced plastic stock, and dull finish metal work. The metal parts of the standard model are polished and attractively blued, and the wood has anice satin finish.
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From the descriptions above, it should be clear that both the BPR and 7600 are attractive, highquality rifles. Some years ago it was generally felt that, for whatever reason, Remington's 740autoloader was generally a little more accurate than their 760 pump. Evidently free floating the barrel of the 7600 has helped the pump's accuracy, and now it is regarded by Remington as equal to the 7400 autoloader in the accuracy department. And, ofcourse, the pump action is also ambidextrous.