Browning Arms Company

Browning Arms Company

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Firearms/Sporting Goods
Founded	1927
Headquarters	Mountain Green, Utah, United States
Parent	Fabrique Nationale de Herstal
Website	http://www.browning.com/

Browning Arms Company is a maker of firearms, bows and fishing gear. Founded in Utah in 1927, it offers a wide variety of firearms, including shotguns, rifles, pistols, and rimfire firearms and sport bows, as well as fishing rods and reels.

The company was founded to market the sporting (non-military) designs of John Browning, one of the world's most prolific firearms inventors. Nearly all of John Browning's designs have been manufactured by other companies, including Winchester, Colt, Remington, Fabrique Nationale de Herstal of Belgium, and Miroku. Browning is currently a fully owned subsidiary of Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.

Browning Arms Company is best known for the Browning BPS shotgun, the A-Bolt rifle, X-Bolt rifle, the Auto-5 semi-automatic shotgun, the BAR semi-automatic rifle, and the Hi-Power 9mm pistol. Browning also manufactures a set of trap shotguns in the Cynergy series.

Browning sells a wide variety of non-firearms outdoors products, such as gun safes, knives, shooting accessories and clothing.^[1]

Browning is the sponsor of hunting show Goin' Country hosted by Kristy Lee Cook which airs on the Versus channel. The relationship between Cook and Browning started after she was shown on American Idol wearing a Browning hat.^[2]

Firearms products

Pistols

Browning Hi-Power

• Browning BDM
• Browning Hi-Power
• Browning Buck Mark

Rifles

Browning Safari model made in Belgium in .270 Winchester

• Browning X-Bolt
• Browning A-Bolt
• Browning BLR
• Browning BAR
• Browning BL-22
• Browning T-Bolt

Shotguns

Browning Auto-5 20g Mag

• Browning Auto-5
• Browning BPS
• Cynergy
• Browning Citori
• Browning Superposed
• BT-99
• Gold
• Browning Silver
• Browning Maxus

Footwear

Browning introduced a line of hunting boots in 1968 and continued to design and manufacture footwear through outside vendors until 2001. In that year, a license agreement was reached with Connecticut based H.H. Brown Shoe Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, to manufacture Browning Footwear.

The product line included the John M. Browning collection, Field and Game series, and sporting and waterfowl lines. The line has grown to include Kangaroo leather boots, Rubber boots and waders, and upland game boots.^[3]

Knives

In 1968, Browning introduced a line of cutlery in the form of 3 fixed-blade hunting knives and a folding knife designed by Custom Knifemaker Gil Hibben. Over the years the lineup has grown and Browning has teamed up with other knifemakers such as Jerry Fisk, Bailey Bradshaw, John Fitch, Joseph Keeslar and James Crowell of the American Bladesmith Society.^[4] In 2004 Browning partnered with several custom knifemakers to produce a series of "Living History Knives" honoring famous American Generals and battles. The lineup included a Liberty Tree Knife made by Larry Harley; a Robert E. Lee Knife and an Alamo Knife honoring Jim Bowie designed by Jerry Fisk; an Ike Knife honoring Dwight David Eisenhower designed by Jim Crowell and a Crazy Horse Knife by Brent Evans.^[5] Browning has recently partnered with Big-game hunter, Russ Kommer as their knife designer.^[6]

See also

• FN Model 1910 (designed by John Browning, built by FN)
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Browning Arms Company

• Official website
• Browning Firearms question and answer forum
• Browning Fishing at Bass Pro Shops online

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