Owners Manual
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This owner's manual covers the 10, 12, 20, 28 gauge and .410 bore shotguns. Please feel free to write us immediately if you many years of care your BPS pump shotgun should give you have any of Browning workmanship and rugged dependability. With a reasonable amount of enjoyable service. The Browning BPS offers the same pride of ownership that incorporates the best of our fine shotguns. THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING A BROWNING BPS SHOTGUN. The BPS has a proven design that one receives from any observations regarding the gun's performance and operation.
This owner's manual covers the 10, 12, 20, 28 gauge and .410 bore shotguns. Please feel free to write us immediately if you many years of care your BPS pump shotgun should give you have any of Browning workmanship and rugged dependability. With a reasonable amount of enjoyable service. The Browning BPS offers the same pride of ownership that incorporates the best of our fine shotguns. THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING A BROWNING BPS SHOTGUN. The BPS has a proven design that one receives from any observations regarding the gun's performance and operation.
Owners Manual
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The most certain way to bulge or rupture a shotgun barrel is then possible to load a smaller gauge shell into a larger gauge chamber. It is to load the correct gauge shell behind the smaller gauge shell. Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun, even though you and others . ... can result in a barrel with the chamber appearing to yourself or others . 10 USE SHELLS OF THE CORRECT LENGTH. DO NOT PUT A 20 GAUGE SHELL IN A 12 GAUGE GUN. DO NOT PUT A 28 GAUGE SHELL IN A 20 GAUGE GUN. Know the range of dangerously high pressures that may damage your ammunition....
The most certain way to bulge or rupture a shotgun barrel is then possible to load a smaller gauge shell into a larger gauge chamber. It is to load the correct gauge shell behind the smaller gauge shell. Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun, even though you and others . ... can result in a barrel with the chamber appearing to yourself or others . 10 USE SHELLS OF THE CORRECT LENGTH. DO NOT PUT A 20 GAUGE SHELL IN A 12 GAUGE GUN. DO NOT PUT A 28 GAUGE SHELL IN A 20 GAUGE GUN. Know the range of dangerously high pressures that may damage your ammunition....
Owners Manual
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...the inside of the barrel, receiver and the action/chamber areas. The 10 gauge BPS is chamber for 31⁄2" loads and the 28 gauge BPS is chambered for giving your new BPS have a 3" chamber (except the 31⁄2" 12-gauge model) and are designed to keep water out of your new gun ... using a cleaning rod and patch as explained under "Cleaning and Maintenance Suggestions" page 23. AMMUNITION All current 12 and 20 gauge and .410 bore BPS models have been coated at the factory with chemicals used. CLEANING PARTS WITH SPECIAL FINISHES Be especially careful when cleaning guns with cleaning...
...the inside of the barrel, receiver and the action/chamber areas. The 10 gauge BPS is chamber for 31⁄2" loads and the 28 gauge BPS is chambered for giving your new BPS have a 3" chamber (except the 31⁄2" 12-gauge model) and are designed to keep water out of your new gun ... using a cleaning rod and patch as explained under "Cleaning and Maintenance Suggestions" page 23. AMMUNITION All current 12 and 20 gauge and .410 bore BPS models have been coated at the factory with chemicals used. CLEANING PARTS WITH SPECIAL FINISHES Be especially careful when cleaning guns with cleaning...
Owners Manual
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... IN BROWNING SHOTGUNS WITH BACK-BORED BARRELS ONLY AND ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE WITH STANDARD INVECTOR™ CHOKE TUBES. You may confirm this by glancing on the top rim of the tube, and with SAAMI specifications) including magnum lead and steel shot loads and rifled slug loads. The 10 gauge, 28 gauge and .410 bore BPS...
... IN BROWNING SHOTGUNS WITH BACK-BORED BARRELS ONLY AND ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE WITH STANDARD INVECTOR™ CHOKE TUBES. You may confirm this by glancing on the top rim of the tube, and with SAAMI specifications) including magnum lead and steel shot loads and rifled slug loads. The 10 gauge, 28 gauge and .410 bore BPS...
Owners Manual
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...tight choke constriction with steel shot will result in an ineffective, "blown pattern." **Extra Full Special with steel shot. 1Available in 10 gauge. 2Available in 12 gauge only. 2When more open choke listed for a given steel shot pattern, use with steel shot. STANDARD INVECTOR™ (20, 12... & 10 GA.) RIM NOTCHES PATTERN WITH LEAD SHOT PATTERN WITH STEEL SHOT X on side of tube X-Full Special Trap ** Knurled I II X-Full ...
...tight choke constriction with steel shot will result in an ineffective, "blown pattern." **Extra Full Special with steel shot. 1Available in 10 gauge. 2Available in 12 gauge only. 2When more open choke listed for a given steel shot pattern, use with steel shot. STANDARD INVECTOR™ (20, 12... & 10 GA.) RIM NOTCHES PATTERN WITH LEAD SHOT PATTERN WITH STEEL SHOT X on side of tube X-Full Special Trap ** Knurled I II X-Full ...