When was browning founded

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Browning Safari model made in Belgium in. Browning Auto-5 20g Mag. Browning introduced a line of hunting boots in and continued to design and manufacture footwear through outside vendors until In that year, a license agreement was reached with Connecticut based H.

The product line included the John M. Browning collection, Field and Game series, and sporting and waterfowl lines. The line has grown to include Kangaroo leather boots, Rubber boots and waders, and upland game boots. In , Browning introduced a line of cutlery in the form of 3 fixed-blade hunting knives and a folding knife designed by Custom Knifemaker Gil Hibben.

Military Wiki Explore. Popular pages. T he business known as the Browning Arms Company was officially organized in Ogden, Utah, under that name in , a year after its most famous namesake, John Moses Browning, died. In actuality, the Browning organization had been around as early as Jonathan Browning's arrival in Utah and the establishment of his gun shop in Ogden in With the death of Jonathan, his son John Moses Browning became the head of the family's gunsmithing business, and with his brothers - Matthew, Jonathan Edmund, Thomas Samuel, William, and George - established in the Browning Brothers Company with its shop and retail store in Ogden.

John Moses Browning has been called "the greatest firearms inventor the world has ever known. He is credited with gun patents, and some fifty million sports and military weapons were manufactured from those patents during the forty-seven years he was an active inventor.

Among his most famous guns produced were the caliber pistol; the Colt Peacemaker machine gun; the Browning automatic rifle; a variety of and caliber machine guns used in World War II; and the Browning Automatic-5 shotgun first made in and still produced today. Browning Brothers manufactured guns in Ogden and produced Browning single-shot rifles before the company turned over the patent to the Winchester Arms Company.