The Browning website, under customer service, lists date of manufacture for their different models by serial number range. You did not tell us the model, but list is open to the public. Go take a look.
Your browning safari bolt action rifle was made by FN for browning in 1963.
It is a bolt action rifle.
Browning Lever Rifle
Your Browning BLR model rifle was made in the year 1969.
Browning never made a pump action rifle.Please check the manufacturing name on your rifle again.
Last year I bought a Browning A-bolt 22 rifle for 300 dollars.It was new in the box.
Browning Bolt action Rifle. BBR. Year serial numbers start with 010001. PM is year of manufacture. 1980 117 is the model type. Standard hunter model. So your rifle is a Browning bolt action rifle manufactured in 1980 around July. Standard right hand hunter model.
You need a gunsmith.
Which model? The first Browning bolt rifle was introduced in 1959 and was available in .30-06
Your Browning safari model bolt action rifle was made by FN of Belguim for Browning in the Year 1963.
There is no such thing as a Browning semiautomatic M70 rifle. The Model 70 bolt-action rifle was produced by Winchester, while Browning produced a very different semiautomatic rifle called the BAR. Which is it?
With the serial number that you supplied,your Browning Safari bolt action rifle was produced by FN of Belguim for Browning in the year 1963.