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- From: pnr0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PAUL N. RITTER)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Info wanted: Browning BDM
- Message-ID: <199212210420.AA75586@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:54:50 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <168C2FEAB.UC390136@mizzou1.missouri.edu>, UC390136@mizzou1.missouri.
- edu (JON HALL) writes:
- #Does anyone have any experience with or opinions about
- #the Browning BDM? Is the Pistol Mode/Revolver Mode feature
- #anything more than something a marketing-type dreamed up?
- #Is this Browning's attempt at a "new" wondernine, one to
- #keep a place in the market, until they think of something
- #better?
-
- In this area, they are extremely hard to find. For some reason, the
- supply/demand is low/high.
-
- #All I've read about it are brief mentions in various gun
- #magazines. All they say is it's a double-mode, narrow-
- #framed, high-capacity 9mm autoloader. I've seen no reviews
- #(If you know of any reviews, please let me know. I'm even
- #willing to send someone a SASE for copies of reviews.)
- #
- #I've also seen the two-page spread in Browning's catalog.
- #Two local gun shops carry the BDM, but neither has had much
- #experience with it nor have they heard anything from
- #the one or two customers who have bought one.
- #
- >Is the gun reliable? Accurate? How would you rate it WRT
- #SIGs, Berettas, Glocks, etc.? How does it like different
- #kinds of ammo? How does the narrow frame feel, when you fire
- #it (aiming, recoil, etc.). Workmanship? Material? Low-/
- #high-maintenence? Mediocre?!
-