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Does anyone know of a Browning dealer in the USA that can import from Browning EU?
I was in England and handled a B525 Crown grade. It is not available in the USA.
I wrote Browning and they replied that it would have to be "handled by a dealer that can accept imports."
Any ideas or experience in this? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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I have been importing since 1972. It is not worth importing one gun. Too costly
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John Boyd
Quality Arms Inc
Houston, TX
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Years ago Briley did a great job at a very reasonable cost. I do not know their current status.
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Briley is not doing imports anymore
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John Boyd
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I’d be ok with Miroku coming here with the guns they sell in England. Very nice looking guns, with fixed chokes
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Why in the world does Browning even have different guns for the European market? I know they do , but why? Makes no sense to me.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Pretty much all international companies do this. All market driven. You can buy a manual transmission Toyota 4-runner in Canada but not the U.S.A....crazy world we live in.
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If enough of you had good taste you would import Miroku's and Crown Grade Brownings . But of course we know you have bad taste , you have Hotdogs , McDonalds , KFC, Pretzels , and you seem to love Krieghoffs . Thank God we Brits have GOOD taste. 
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Come, come, now. I would be hesitant to call a people who favor such foods as stargazy pie, haggis, black pudding, spotted dick and jellied eels as a people with good taste. Small wonder Kate Middleton is so thin.  SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Took me a bit but some things grew on me. I do enjoy a full English Breakfast but for the life of me I do not know how they remove all the flavor from the sausage
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Same way they mastered electrical things and refrigeration. Lucas to the rescue. Don’t forget Lucas still holds the patient on the short circuit. Which explains why they drink warm beer. They frige is always broke. Wiring made by Lucas. Still the cheeses are good and being warm with them is OK.
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Wasn't the nickname for Lucas the "Prince of Darkness?"
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Any mention of jellied eels makes me salivate.
And it is spotty not spotted dick. A superior type of pud, pronounced so it rhymes with wood not mud.
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Just as note here, The Better Miroku guns i.e. Gr5 MK38 sporters and Pairs , Yes, well matched pairs ( I have a pair of 32" 20's)
ARE available stateside from a shooting friend of mine,Charlie Schneible and lovely wife Margaret at their Millbrook NY store, British Sporting Arms
Check their website and give him a call....
Last edited by mel5141; 10/09/18 03:15 PM.
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Wasn't the nickname for Lucas the "Prince of Darkness?" For those of us raised on British sports cars of the 60's and 70's......yes. An E-Type would have been a far superior car had Sir William Lyons authorized another source for the electricals.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Joe Lucas "Prince of Darkness" is spot on. The 40W headlight on my Velocette Venom shone what looked like a curved yellow tube onto the road ahead at about 40mph. Any faster and you could catch up with the tube of light and at 70mph pass it ! Eyes on stalks and speedy reactions were the only way to survive.
As our language becomes impoverished,,our thinking shrinks to fit.
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Lucas was well ahead of his time as vehicles with Lucas electronics featured the first intermittent electric windshield wipers although the intermittent part wasn't intentional & 3 position head lamp switches providing dim, flicker & off functions.
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Yes,
Do as Mel says.
Charles imported my pair of new Miroku’s and everything was as expected, efficient , and modestly priced.
I see no reason to use anyone else for my importing needs going forward.
And, you can shoot at Sandanona when you pick up your toys.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Great to hear that MK38 Grade5's are available in NY.
I will now try to persuade my friend Tom Fiumarello sell his Italian Cracked Stock special for a 'proper' gun.
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My Miroku High Pheasants will be playing in Yorkshire in 2 weeks.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Charles does not just provide import services ( although he is excellent in that capacity)
He regularly stocks and has in stock now Miroku Mk 60 Gr 5 guns for immediate delivery.....He sources them regularly from abroad.....Browning has nothing in their line in the U.S even remotely approaching them as a nice , well balanced, offering with great stock dimensions on nice high grade American walnut.
I have 5 of those guns in various configurations.....
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I'm selling my 1974 12g Belgian Browning B25 B2 'Special Trap' in its Browning case due to old age. If anyone is interested and can get it over to the States, I can open a new thread with pics to show the absolutely beautiful piece of wood on it. Or you can have a look at it here on Guntrader UK: https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotguns/browning/over-under/12-gauge/b25-b2-181007155642504Engraved by R. Bee! regards from England Gunter NRA Life 1974
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Hi Gunter, 44 is not a very Old Age for a good gun  Sorry , just joking, that's sad.It is a grand looking gun Gunter. cheers franc
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No problem,
I have had a lot of fun with this gun over the last 25 years or so -mainly on pheasants here in the UK, but also on the clay pigeon weekends around here. These original Brownings (what do you call them - superposed? - shoot well!) I started with my first , basic, B25 in about 1971 in Germany and upset quite a few people who thought they were unbeatable at 'trap' hehe
Just got to the point where rheumatism, arthritis and a few other health issues prevent me from going out in the cold winter mornings - it's not worth the pain afterwards!
rgds from England
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Joe Lucas "Prince of Darkness" is spot on. The 40W headlight on my Velocette Venom shone what looked like a curved yellow tube onto the road ahead at about 40mph. Any faster and you could catch up with the tube of light and at 70mph pass it ! Eyes on stalks and speedy reactions were the only way to survive. I was a Junior is high school when I saw my first Velo Thruxton in the flesh. I was previously smitten by the advert's in Cycle magazine extolling it as the first bike averaging 100 MPH for 24 hours. I guess the only real issue was getting the beast lit!!
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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