Browning Model 71 Limited Edition

[@JPsaysno]

From a guy thats never fired a lever action rifle. This video is gold. !! Thanks.

[@frankwrogg2515]

Great rifle and great camera work. Love the ending piece.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

You have 2 nice doggies. I enjoyed the fall video.

[@craigjohnson6141]

Now that is one beautiful rifle!

[@ToadleyBrowne]

Shiny:) Thanks

[@plop55]

I have a browning/Miroku 71 Winchester. I absolutely love it. Did you see Hornady started making new 348 Winchester ammo again.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

It is a great cartridge to hand load for as well. You can turn down the recoil a tad when you are in the mood to do some plinking.:) Thanks for the note Brian Levin

[@deanl.511]

nice very nice!!!!! thanks....

[@ToadleyBrowne]

Thank you

[@dieselten01]

Sweet! Beautiful rifle. I too have nothing but trouble with the JBA 348 brass in my 71

[@ToadleyBrowne]

They do seem to be made up of a different formula of brass. The case design has as much going for it as against it. Sort of works like a wedge. On overpressure loads even with a big taper, there is a lot of surface area to get moving when the case gets even slightly stuck.That 4320 load is a dream to shoot. Thanks!

[@georgiaboy4410]

Those Browning/Miroku’s are nice. The 348 is a hammer of a round. I’d like one of the Browning model 53’s in 32-20 of that same era👍🏻

[@ToadleyBrowne]

Thanks! Now I have to look into what those 53's are:)

[@georgiaboy4410]

@@ToadleyBrowne it’s a little version of that 71 👍🏻

[@ToadleyBrowne]

@@georgiaboy4410 Just looked at a few. Very very nice looking guns.

[@easttexan2933]

Georgiaboy44....its ballistics are basically the same as a 30-06. Nothing special.

[@exothermal.sprocket]

@@easttexan2933 27.6% greater frontal area on the bullet, a little bit more energy on average than .30-06, runs 250gr bullets on the high end.

[@bullseyedixon5660]

great info

[@dowdawg]

That things a beast !!!

[@WilliamCChapin]

Wow! I’ve always felt that the Miroku manufactured versions of Winchester / USRA / Browning products often had a quality edge over the originals and were more or less identical in form. The target shotguns I’ve encountered (20 gauge Model 12 and 101 skeet guns in particular) were certainly on par with or exceeded originals. I didn’t realize that the Browning 71 wasn’t a straight up Winchester in detail - it makes me curious if similar manufacturing “refinements” were made to the other classic levers that are so nice, yet maybe not as much of a duplicate as I thought. Good show, Toad!

[@ToadleyBrowne]

Thanks! They made modifications to the designs in certain areas for manufacturing throughput. The parts are not interchangeable. Some may be but don't know which ones.

[@aaronwilcox6417]

Except for the fact the Browning 71 has no throat to use heavy cast bullet in. I've got both and both are excellent

[@easttexan2933]

the only way it could get any better is to have a Winchester Model 71 !! Oh. Wait. You have one of those too. 👍😊

[@PilotMcbride]

Beautiful rifle Toadley, the engraving is amazing!! Can't wait for the stripdown..... Thanks pal!! 👏👏👏 👋👋👋 P.S. No more pumps or lines connected, now fancy free, but plenty of pain to go round, just in time for the heat - 100+ for the next few days, 😫.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

You have been through a lot. (Too much)Hope you have a room you can hide in with Air Conditioning and pain meds for you and the dog if he is still around. I have had a few of these 1886 apart. Once you do em they are not bad but the screws can show signs of tinkering so I may leave this alone until I get bored:) Get well soon my friend.

[@PilotMcbride]

@@ToadleyBrowne My little mate lives only in my heart now Mike, lost him 18 months ago at age 19, but he lives on in my heart (and on my phone & ipad). This whole episode would've killed the little bugger and sent Susie round the twist with his yapping. And I still hear his yaps in the early mornings and have to get up and check..... He passed in my arms, he was (and is) my little hero who overcame every obstacle, tried to protect us from all he saw as threats, but never bit anyone (except me when pushed). But we still have 2 old dogs (10 & 14), both rescues who look after the grandkids and fart like you wouldn't believe... So yeah, life goes on, we have a lot to celebrate. We have international friends, like yourself and others who support & help us from afar in ways some cannot understand. Life's good, we just need some snow to cool us off, 😂😂. Cheers my friend, 👋👋👋

[@ToadleyBrowne]

@@PilotMcbride 15 degrees F this morning. Took a 9mm rifle out at 100 yards and couldn't hit crap. Left the camera home as dragging all the extra stuff can make for frozen fingers. The range needed shoveling with the 6 inches of snow we got by the time I got to shooting I didn't really care. Going back tomorrow now that it is all dug out. I know you loved your dog and you treated him like a king. Good for you guys getting rescue dogs. They sure as hell appreciate it.

[@PilotMcbride]

You’re a good man @@ToadleyBrowne, but you have a thing for salt, 😂😂. Every time I mention our heat you go a runnin’ for the salt, and rub it in my wounds, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, then proceed to tell me how cool it is over there, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!! One of these days......... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. 9mm rifle?? I gotta see that. Have never seen one. Will have to look it up. Does it perform? I guess you’re talking 9mm Luger corz your 348W should be just under 9mm....... are you pullin’ a fast one? 😂😂😂 BTW, no a/c, we’ve blown 3 units up, we just hunk down now and do our best to get through it. Wishing you all good health and happiness my friend, and keep the weather reports coming. Cheers ol’ mate, all the best. 👋👋👋

[@CaptHowdy48]

I have a Winnie 71 348 Winchester original grade 1 24” barrel , big boomer hope it comes back in shooting favor… load in with 3031 IMR for 2200 fps

[@jamespollard1670]

A nice old lever gun . Was that Mutual of Omaha ?

[@WilliamCChapin]

Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler? I was wondering too...

[@ToadleyBrowne]

"The People you can count on when the going gets rough" Yes indeed. Used to watch it religiously when I was growing up. The rocket net was one of my favorites.

[@rbm6184]

@@ToadleyBrowne Oh yeah. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Remember it well but not so much specific episodes. But being from Florida I watched a lot of Dennis Weaver and Gentle Ben.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

@@rbm6184 I was a big Mcoud fan as well.

[@rbm6184]

@@ToadleyBrowne While most kids watched the Collie Lassie, we had German Shepherds so I was a Rin Tin Tin kid. But we also had some Bird dogs and Cur dogs.

[@DonutIgnoramus]

Just got passed down one of these rifles from my Grandfather. Hope to shoot it, but the ammo seems to be pretty hard to come by.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

Ask if there was any ammo for the gun. My first 348 I had to look and eventually found a few boxes at 75.00 for 20 rounds. Over a few years I eventually found brass and projectiles for handloading. You are right about it being hard to find right now.

[@br4713]

With the original iron butt plate and a 20 rounds box, it might heal the shoulder !

[@ToadleyBrowne]

I'm healed! I'm healed!

[@br4713]

@@ToadleyBrowne😂Haha, how is it ? blue, violet, or black ?

[@RealDeanWinchester]

My worst fear is that I'll have to fight off dinosaurs someday. That's why I refuse to sell my marlin 1895G. According to quickload, with a full charge of 4198 the Hornady 480dgx will leave the muzzle at 1560 fps. I have always thought a 400 gr hp was the way to go until I saw a triceratops skull in museum. Damn you toad, I think I need a bigger gun.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

50 BMG would do it:)

[@RealDeanWinchester]

@@ToadleyBrowne I have some M2AP for the garand. I need to go back to the museum and do some testing.

[@br4713]

A bigger gun ??? Do you intend to create black holes in a triceratops skull ? What's the caliber of this particles accelerator ? 😂

[@ToadleyBrowne]

@@br4713HA Ha! It's a little 348. The darn thing is a 45-70 wantobe.

[@RealDeanWinchester]

@@br4713 when you are face to face with one is not the time to discover that you didn't bring enough gun.

[@davidcraig9938]

How can you say the gun cycles flawlessly when you just showed us it jams because the Browning design with the ejector/ firing pin scrapes a gouge in the primer? If the gun is a jammer, its junk. Switch to the Model 1895...it doesn't jam and the 405 Win will punch a bigger hole that will take a African Lion down...trust T.R.

[@ToadleyBrowne]

The model 1895 is a nice rifle.