Browning 53 Question

[TX50Cal]

I have had a couple of Browning model 53 32-20's over the years. I have never seen one with a full mag. This seller says this is all factory. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =279904929. Has anyone ever seen a factory full mag 53? I have never seen one but would like to have one if it was all factory. Thanks for the info.
Dave in TX

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

I have had a couple of Browning model 53 32-20's over the years. I have never seen one with a full mag. This seller says this is all factory. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =279904929. Has anyone ever seen a factory full mag 53? I have never seen one but would like to have one if it was all factory. Thanks for the info.
Dave in TX

I don't like to say "they never did that", but that just doesn't look right to me. If someone can come up with a picture of another one like it I might believe it.

[Shasta]

I'd say BS. Look at the magazine hanger, it is a rifle style but located clear out under the front sight! Somebody added the full length tube and did it incorrectly. I have seen one Browning 53 with a full length magazine, in fact it was being offered for sale at a local gun show. I know the owner personally and he said he had the longer magazine tube installed because the original short tube only held six rounds and he needed ten for cowboy action shooting.

EDIT: Here's one that was modified properly. Note hanger in picture #4:

http://www.gunauction.com/search/displa ... um=9423095


SHASTA

[InTheWoods]

I have seen one example several times and handled it once at a gun store in St. Louis County. Yep, they exist. I have also read of other examples.

[Pete44ru]

That may be, but I've NEVER seen a clumsy mag tube hanger location from either Winchester, Rossi, or Miroku, like that one has, on ANY Winchester Model 1894/94, 1892/93, or clone, full-length/rifle magazine.

SInce it's right about where some Carbine model forward barrelbands are located, IMHO some noob who didn't know where a rifle hanger should go, put the hanger where it was on the model he was most familiar with.

IMO, that Browning M-53 would have been worth easily $900 w/o the addition - but as it is, I wouldn't even buy it, never mind give as much as $400 for it, since the new barrel dovetail is irrepairable.

It "might" sell, though - given that there seems to be a butt for every chair lately.

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[Hobie]

That may be, but I've NEVER seen a clumsy mag tube hanger location from either Winchester, Rossi, or Miroku, like that one has, on ANY Winchester Model 1894/94, 1892/93, or clone, full-length/rifle magazine.

SInce it's right about where some Carbine model forward barrelbands are located, IMHO some noob who didn't know where a rifle hanger should go, put the hanger where it was on the model he was most familiar with.

IMO, that Browning M-53 would have been worth easily $900 w/o the addition - but as it is, I wouldn't even buy it, never mind give as much as $400 for it, since the new barrel dovetail is irrepairable.

It "might" sell, though - given that there seems to be a butt for every chair lately.

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True enough.

[MacEntyre]

I was under the impression that my 1919 Winchester model 92 in 32-20 is an SRC without SR, with a shotgun butt stock, which is essentially a 53 with a full mag tube... 'course, I may have misunderstood.

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... 97#p489497

[Buck Elliott]

Clearly NOT a factory application on that Model 53...
I suppose a customer could have special-ordered such an abominable departure from the norm, but I still doubt the factory would have done it that way...

[Mike D.]

It is a very amateurish job, to say the least. The forward mag tube hanger should be centered 3 13/16ths from the end of the barrel and secured with a screw through the mag cap and into an indent in the barrel bottom. The tube hanger cam be either the pinned type or the rotate in one.