![]() ![]() At one time, someone who knew the folks building these rifles told me the barrels were being made by the old Green River Rifle Barrel Company. These were "patched round ball" rifles, with a 1-in-66 rifling twist. Browning offered the rifles in percussion ignition only, in. The rifle features a 30-inch 1-inch diameter octagonal barrel.a single-set trigger.and a quality American black walnut stock. And, at those prices they are an excellent buy. You can still find the rifles for sale on the internet. if one was willing to shop around.) I'm not sure how many of the rifles were built, an educated guess would be around 10,000. ( Note: The rifles could be found for sale for as low as $295. and $449 seemed an awfully high price to pay. Even so, the American black powder burner of the late 1970's was more accustomed to paying $175 to $250 for the "reproduction" muzzleloaders they shot and hunted with. and a custom built Hawken styled rifle could be had for $550 to $600. In those days, the Thompson/Center Hawken still retailed for around $195. I can remember these Browning rifles selling for $449. and was actually built with the same quality component parts one could only find on custom half-stocks of similar "Plains" or "Mountain" styling. The rifle was built under contract for Browning by a small Utah-based operation. This is one of the Jonathan Browning Mountain Rifles offered by Browning Arms during the late 1970's and early 1980's. Now, about that classy looking half-stock rifle in the banner photo running across the very top of this page. These days.Who in their right mind would take a 150- to 200-year old original and subject it to the rigors of shooting and hunting? And if there was anything truly "special" about one of the rifles.the price could shoot right up to more than $15,000! and tens of thousands of others built by other well known rifle makers of the period. Today, if the rifle shown here had a clean and shootable bore, with a crisp lock and double-set triggers, this rifle. During the 1970's, rifles like this.in shootable uld still be bought for less than $500. Dimick half-stock "Plains Rifle" or "Mountain Rifle" shown directly above. A great example of how collecting old muzzleloaders of the distant past has gotten way too expensive would be that original circa 1850's H.E. Collecting original muzzleloaders from the mid 1800s and earlier has gotten to be a rich man's game. ![]()
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