Not true that they are all the same. The later ones have the damnable rebounding hammer
and multipiece latch-locked firing pin. Total disaster on my gun. Took it back to the dealer,
said I could send it in if I wanted, would go to Belgium, his experience was that it would be gone
about 6 months. And they probably weren't going to change anything.
The Brownings were identical to the originals, solid firing pin, full weight, non-rebounding hammer, plenty of
energy to punch the primer. Mine will JUST BARELY work, and early on, before I started 'unrebounding'
the hammer I had a number of groups at 100 that were 2" wide and 10-18" tall......really bad ignition.
Beautiful rifle, ruined by lawyers. One day I will pull the FP and weld a solid back half on it and fix it even
more. Current one is hollow at the rear, a spring loaded plunger is hit by the hammer, pushes a latch internal
to the FP, which retracts, letting the FP move fwd, AND absorbing a lot of the hammer energy, too. And the
hammer has had about half the metal milled away to give a shelf for the thumb slide safety, further lowering
the system energy, which is further reduced by the rebound effect slowing the hammer before it gets all the way
forward. GRRRRRR.
Bill