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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Browning Handguns Msg# 1152959
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I distinctly remember getting one into the store from our distributors as a new gun when I worked in the gun dept. at the ranch & home store in CA, '84-'85. Would have been marked Browning BDA, and was in .45ACP. 
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Browning imported those BDA models from about 1977 until about 1980, so they weren't that successful, even though they were available in 9mm, .38 Super and .45. I think there were a couple of reasons for their failure. Primary reason was the heel clip magazine release (so veddy Euro!  ) Another reason was the relative high price of $400+ for the 9mm with a single stack magazine right in the midst of the "Wonder 9", high capacity boom. The .38 Super as a caliber at that time was a fringe chambering, and the .45 version with its single stack magazine and double action didn't ring a lot of cash registers, although, IIRC, it did well in some competitive matches.
The one I bought in 1996, which was NIB, was in .38 Super, and packaged in that black and gold box. I got it at Stockton Gun Exchange in Cali, where I had bought a number of Sig pistols and the owner knew I'd be interested. He had 3 of them that he bought at an estate sale, 2 in 9mm and the one in .38 Super. I paid $450 for mine, and if he had had one in .45, I probably would have bought that one too. I sold mine for $600 after I had moved back to St. Louis, in my friend's gun store when I was building up my retirement funds. Harvey |
