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I'm told by a Canadian gun dealer that he has an original Browning B78 factory chambered in 300 H&H. Non of my manuals or catalogs confirm this. What's up?

I never heard of one b4 , but I guess one never knows?

Dober

If I was interested in buying it, I'd want a factory letter stating the chambering is factory - no letter = shooter $$$.

It's fairly EZ to rechamber an -06 single-shot to .300 H&H, and the extractor's a no-brainer.

When Browning introduced them in '73, the only chamberings available at first were 22-250, 6mm Rem, 25.06, & .30-06.
The iron-sighted .45-70 didn't come out until later on.

I bought a new tapered octagon barreled .30-06 and a round barrel 6mm, at the time - so, I looked over my options pretty good, at the time (which was early on).

Later, the 7mm Rem Mag became available. It's extractor, available as a part, would be the "no-brainer" I was referring to for a rechambering job from a standard case to a belted magnum.

BTW - My copy of the Browning B-78 Field Service Manual lists only the six chamberings, which I've cited.

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Rangr44, thanks, those are near my own thoughts. I've a 25-06 oct. I asked if was a re-chambered '06 and was told no, original and near new condition. So, waiting for pictures.

As we suspected; close inspection reveals a line through the 30-06 stamping followed by 300HH.

That shoulda meant a line through the original asking price too, discounting it down to about $650-800.