Bowning Gold

[kwacksmacker18]

Have any of you guys ever shot a Browning Gold? I have been looking into getting one and would like some hunter info on it.

[mcleoca]

Yes, they are great guns! I have one and I have a silver that I duck hunt with. My gold is just good looking to take duck hunting and scratch it to hell and back so I just dove hunt with it and then stick it back in the cabinet for display. The silver and gold are pretty much the same gun and I put my silver through a lot during season and its been very durable for the last 3 years. I would recommend them to anyone!

[ransco33]

I've got an Invector Gold 10 gauge and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Best feeling and shooting gun I've ever held. Not very fun for a long walk into a hole carrying that cannon though.

[quackstackmrm]

kwack, see i told you you need to invest in that.

[kwacksmacker18]

Lookin that way aint it?

[mudweiser92887]

i shoot a browning silver and love mine

[mally2]

just bought a silver this season and put about 2 cases through it. i love it so far...

[JMitch]

I have one love it I have had it for 8 or 9 years wouldn't have any other gun tough as hell

[GulfCoast]

I have 4 or 5 of them. My 3.5" , duck gun, which was also my sporting clays gun for many years, has well over 60K rounds through it and will shoot 7/8 oz loads. I probably have over 100K rounds through all of them combined. I have had two broken firing pins (5 minute fix) in a sporting clays gun (Browning had a bad run of pins), and the plastic cap/magazine follower cracked in my duck gun after it got wet and froze. I replaced that plastic cap with an aluminum one, and have had zero problems since. I clean my duck gun before the season, and if it gets sopping wet, and thats about it. I clean my sporting clays guns when they get totally disgusting (like every couple thousand rounds). I have been very happy with my bunch.

The key to being happy with them is to strip clean the gun BEFORE you ever shoot it to get all the cosmoline/packing grease out of it.

The 3.5" guns won't work worth a damn if you accidently drop a 10 guage shell in it, though!

[Medicine Man]

I own the SBE2 and my brother has a browning gold..I beg him to let me take it on the dove hunts it that tells you anything. I will say this though if your looking for a duck hunting gun, it's to nice of a gun for that. And if your looking to Turkey hunt, it will not shoot 3 1/2 inch shells.

[farmerc83]

...And if your looking to Turkey hunt, it will not shoot 3 1/2 inch shells.

Some won't but most do. I have a 3.5" Gold and it has been my go to gun for everything since 2001. My main most hunting buddy since then has always shot a Beretta or Bennelli, both of which always had a sloppy action in my opinion. But, he just bought a used Browning Gold. When I asked him why his response was, "well yours never f*&ks up".

[rbh62]

I have shot a Browning Gold now for 6 years and it is an awesome gun. The only problem I have found is when it is really cold outside the action gets really slow. That is probably just a problem from me not cleaning it enough or something. Even though I have cleaned it more this season and still had the problem when it got really cold. Anybody know of why it could be acting that way? I just need to take it to somebody that knows what they are doing and take it apart and clean it real good. Other than that the gun is great. The feel of it is the best part. It also doesn't kick bad at all and I only shot 3 1/2's through mine.

[GulfCoast]

RBH: You have got "coffee grounds" up in the rails from unburned powder combined with Rem Oil most likely. Or so much gunk on the mag tube the piston won't slide. As little as I clean mine, I find that Break Free CLP, or FP10 really keep the guns running. Rem Oil and thick oils like that in cold weather can get sticky in most any gun.

[kwacksmacker18]

Thanks for the info guys! That's more than likely the one Im going to get. Sounds like no one has any horror stories bout em!

[Medicine Man]

They don't make them anymore either soooooo if you don't buy it send send me a PM I might be interested in it.