I am no expert, but I believe something to look out for with Browning guns of that period are "salt wood" guns. This is something you can probably look up should you need to. I think a FN Browning in .338 would be kinda cool. I wouldn't be interested in the two even shorter cartridges in a full length FN action, but that's just me.
I say buy all the good guns in Cali the mall ninjas are too stupid to care about, then get the [bleep] out! But again, that's just me! : )