FN Browning Trombone .22 LR — Pre-War Belgian, Circa 1927–28

Honest, original FN Browning Trombone slide-action .22, made by Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre in Herstal, Belgium. Serial 25979 places this rifle in the 1927–28 production window — square-tang receiver, first-decade production, well before the war shut down FN's sporting line.

This is a working gun, not a safe queen. Bluing shows honest wear on the receiver flats and along the barrel where decades of hands and rifle socks have done their work. Action cycles smoothly — the lateral-locking breech block John Browning designed in 1919 is still doing exactly what he drew it up to do almost a hundred years later.

Disclosed condition note: stock has a crack — pictured and described in the photos. This is a known failure mode on early square-tang Trombones (the receiver shape concentrates stress, and the wood between the magazine tube and barrel was always thin). It is what it is. The crack is reflected in the price, and it does not affect the function of the action.

Context for anyone newer to these: the Trombone was the rifle a working Canadian bought when he'd saved past the single-shot Cooey stage. Trapline gun, barn gun, .22 in the back of the half-ton from the 1920s through the 1960s. FN made about 150,000 over a 52-year run, and most that came to North America came to Canada — the FN/Colt regional agreement kept them out of the U.S. market. When you see one on the Canadian EE, you're looking at this country's small-bore history.

Barrel carries the correct FABRIQUE NATIONALE D'ARMES DE GUERRE / HERSTAL-BELGIQUE / BROWNING'S PATENT DEPOSE rollmark, with "22 L" stamping (correct factory marking — chambered for .22 LR). 11-round tube magazine. Takedown design — coin-screw field strip.

Why buy this one? A collector-grade pre-war Trombone runs $1,200–$2,000 north of the border. This one is priced as a shooter — for the buyer who wants the Browning action, the Belgian pedigree, and the Canadian history without the safe-queen price tag. The mechanics on these were built to outlast the wood, and they have.

Honest gun, honest price, honest description. Inspection welcome.

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