The huge drop in price of the Brownings was partly caused
by Winchester (Olin) here in Australia advertising products
(ie the guns) in the WSM and WSSM calibres up to 2 years
before they actually got here.

OK, it's good marketing practice to generate demand but
to create demand and not have product to sell is crazy.
And on top of that the demand was then satisfied by the
Weatherby's, Tikka's, Howa's et all which also ended up
being cheaper as the price had dropped.

In addition, mounts aren't yet available for the guns anyway.

Winchester would have been better dropping the price of the
ammo or bundling gun bags, mounts, scope, ammo etc as
all they have done is killed the market for the next few years
for any rilfe with Browning on it and also killed the second hand
market values.

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