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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Browning Handguns Msg# 1152916
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Thanks, I like it a lot!
I bought it new, in 2012. I found it (and two more!) at an estate sale/auction, for a S&W dealer. I bought outright 4, NIB and unfired S&W revolvers. I put in a silent bid on two more, and won them too! When I went back the next day for the remaining two, they had a bunch of knives, martial arts gear and three beat up looking boxes showing Browning BDA. So while they were doing the paperwork, I wandered over to look at them. I remembered seeing them the day before and thought that they felt "cheap." They were light, too light for their size, it seemed. There was an ever so slight rattle to them. For those and other reasons, I wasn't impressed. At the beginning of the auction, it was said that by the end of the last day, all items had to be sold! So I looked at all three again. All in their boxes, paperwork and a lanyard attachment. They were all new and looked identical. They had three different prices on them and I asked why? Different trigger systems, I was told. They were all DA/SA and seemed again, identical. The prices were $525, $550 and $600 So me, not knowing anything about Browning or Sig for that matter, picked up the $600 gun and looked at it a while. The auctioneer said, make me an offer. I said I didn't want to insult him. He said try! I said how about $200? He said, how about $300? I said sure and bought the $600 marked gun. Long story kind of short-ish, when I got home, I searched for this "BDA" and found that they were kind of rare, being available in 9mm, 38 Super and 45 ACP. Enough good things could not be said about them! The prices in the forum posts from 5 years prior (latest I could find) were in the $500-$700 range. Yikes! I thought, I had better call them back and see if they still had the other two. Nope! seems that there was a guy in the corner, who obviously knew more about them than I, had bought the other two as soon as I left. I swear that they showed up at a local gun show two months later...wearing a price tag of $725!! Here are some more pictures, some with and without flash, which explains the color shift. And, some earlier pictures showing the box and a little brother. Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA1 Camera/Image Info
Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot S5 IS F-Stop - F/3.2 Shutter Speed - 1/60 sec Focal Length - 8.3 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 2  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/4 Shutter Speed - 1/60 sec Focal Length - 12.35 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 1 Image Info: NIB Browning BDA, bought in 2012  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/4 Shutter Speed - 1/60 sec Focal Length - 12.35 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 4 Image Info: NIB Browning BDA, bought in 2012  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/4 Shutter Speed - 1/10 sec Focal Length - 12.35 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 3 Image Info: NIB Browning BDA, bought in 2012  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/4 Shutter Speed - 1/13 sec Focal Length - 12.35 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 5 Image Info: NIB Browning BDA, bought in 2012  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/7.1 Shutter Speed - 1/4 sec Focal Length - 12 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA 6 Image Info: NIB Browning BDA, bought in 2012  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS F-Stop - F/4 Shutter Speed - 1/13 sec Focal Length - 10.07 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: BDA1  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot S5 IS F-Stop - F/3.2 Shutter Speed - 1/60 sec Focal Length - 8.3 mm ISO-200 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: P225 & BDA
Image Info: Top view of slides  Camera/Image Info Camera Make - Canon Camera Model - Canon PowerShot S5 IS F-Stop - F/3.5 Shutter Speed - 1/60 sec Focal Length - 19.7 mm ISO-200 |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: "From Craig, To Craig." I think that's the first time you've posted a message to yourself. 
That's a very cool pistol. I don't know that I've ever seen one. I started to say I'd seen one in a shop I worked in around 1990-91, but then I remembered that was a BDM, a completely different critter! If I can ask some probing personal questions, where did you find the BDA, and how long have you had it? Was it new or pre-owned, as the luxury car dealers like to say? |
It's amazing that you can even find magazines! Would love to see a new photo with the G10 stock panels!