For sale- 1950's Vintage Browning Machine Gun

**stinker** · 08-27-2011, 09:06 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-BROW...item5197e9c5f2

I just felt the need to share what i stumbled across

**American Rage** · 08-27-2011, 09:11 PM

FUCKIN' AWESOME!

AS A KID, I'D OF GIVEN MY LEFT NUT FOR ONE OF THOSE BABIES!

Rage

**L1A1Rocker** · 08-27-2011, 09:13 PM

Very cool. I've seen Christmas pictures of my older brother with something like that. I was ten years behind him and it didn't survive for hand-me-down. Still very cool!

**mriddick** · 08-27-2011, 09:14 PM

Browning? I bet the Japanese makers had another type in mind when they made it

**O.S.O.K.** · 08-27-2011, 09:32 PM

Pretty cool. I like the circular belt

I had a Matel M16 Marauder when I was a kid - still have it. Doesn't work any more... but I had many hours of fun with the thing - the oversized mag has a speaker in it. You'd crank back on a lever on the right side and wind it up and when you pulled the trigger "brat brat brat brat"

**stinker** · 08-27-2011, 10:07 PM

I kind of wish i still had my M1917 Enfield toy from when i was a kid. Thing almost looked real but scaled down for a kid. Even had a spring loaded wooden bullet painted brass color that poped forward as you pulled the bolt back so you could see it loaded "inside" the receiver. No stupid orange or red cap on the end. All wood and metal that gave a very strong and satisfying dryfire click when you pulled the trigger. It also would'nt fire again until you pulled the bolt back to "reload".

They just don't make them like they used to.

**awp101** · 08-27-2011, 10:24 PM

That's a Type 97 or 99 MG, I forget which.

It would look cool in a display room though...

**1 Patriot-of-many** · 08-28-2011, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by mriddick

Browning? I bet the Japanese makers had another type in mind when they made it

Yeah no kidding....Doesn't look much like a browning.

This is a Browning

**mriddick** · 08-28-2011, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by awp101

That's a Type 97 or 99 MG, I forget which.

It would look cool in a display room though...

I think Japanese type 92 machine gun....

IMO One reason these type of toys didn't sell very well is because alot of the fathers at the time (ex WW2 vets) wouldn't buy their sons what they recognized as a Japanese machine gun they fought against at one time.

**Zoff12** · 08-28-2011, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by stinker

I kind of wish i still had my M1917 Enfield toy from when i was a kid. Thing almost looked real but scaled down for a kid. Even had a spring loaded wooden bullet painted brass color that poped forward as you pulled the bolt back so you could see it loaded "inside" the receiver. No stupid orange or red cap on the end. All wood and metal that gave a very strong and satisfying dryfire click when you pulled the trigger. It also would'nt fire again until you pulled the bolt back to "reload".

They just don't make them like they used to.

I had one of those, too. IIRC... I had one that looked like an '03 Springfield as well.

**American Rage** · 08-28-2011, 07:02 PM

Did anyone ever have the rifle that fired the wooden bullets?

Rage

**mrkalashnikov** · 08-28-2011, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by mriddick

I think Japanese type 92 machine gun....

IMO One reason these type of toys didn't sell very well is because alot of the fathers at the time (ex WW2 vets) wouldn't buy their sons what they recognized as a Japanese machine gun they fought against at one time.

Yep, the Nambu "woodpecker", well known to every Marine who served in the Pacific theater during WWII.

The Jap toymakers were no doubt having some fun w/ marketing a plastic copy of the Imperial Army's MG to the US postwar market, by calling it a Browning.

**Helen Keller** · 08-28-2011, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by American Rage

Did anyone ever have the rifle that fired the wooden bullets?

Rage

I had the m16 that shot big solid plastic bullets.

GOt it at K-mart when I was 7 or 8 , got taken away the same day too

**stinker** · 08-28-2011, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by mrkalashnikov

Yep, the Nambu "woodpecker", well known to every Marine who served in the Pacific theater during WWII.

The Jap toymakers were no doubt having some fun w/ marketing a plastic copy of the Imperial Army's MG to the US postwar market, by calling it a Browning.

Actually i did'nt catch that when i made the OP...The ebay seller has it posted as a "browning machine gun" but the box the toy comes in only says "battery operated heavy machine gun". Browning is'nt anywhere on it.

**mriddick** · 08-29-2011, 05:45 AM

And not one person caught my joke about "another type" in post 4

**El Duce** · 08-29-2011, 07:31 PM

When I was a kid, I had a toy bazooka. That thing was cool as all get out. I guess that I pissed my mom off one day, because she jumped up and down on the thing until it was nothing but scrap.

Until it got destroyed, for every "block war" that we had, every one wanted me to be part of their army, because, I was the only one with a bazooka. I also had a tommy gun that would make a bbbrrrraaapppp sound and eject fake shells, that was pretty cool too.