Browning BAR Grade 4 .270 rifle ?

[godsdozer]

Santa brought this to me yesterday. Any ideas of its worth ? 1973

[ridgerunner6901]

No idea.. someone might say priceless. Sweet rifle, enjoy!

[EKYRanger]

What a nice Browning!!!! Congrats sir.

[Boatseller]

You were a VERY GOOD boy this year. Beautiful Browning. Enjoy

[Transom]

A plain jane one is my hunting rifle. I think those grade upgrades used to be about a $1000 or more extra per grade. If I had to guess probably $3000-$4000 but I am no authority.

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[godsdozer]

[BP in ME]

Definitely too pretty to hunt with

[marinetechnician]

What a beauty.

[drake322]

It looks like a newer gun based off the wood. BEAUTIFUL! Brownings have came up in price lately and why I do not know. I would say it would be a ballpark $3K piece all day long. If it was a 60/70s model it might fetch close to $5k to right person if it had box.

I had a friend that did not know what he had. Bar II Safari in 270 Weatherby Mag that was 95%. He wanted me to sell it for him. I pitched it local and no one wanted it because of the caliber. I put it on GB and w/in 3 hours of listing I had a guy in Michigan wanting to talk to me. We talked and he bought the gun for the BIN price of $1500. He told me there were less than 500 made. I did my research before hand and tops were selling for $17-1900. He was goin to order a new stock set and put on it because it had one scratch, lol.

[Transom]

It looks like a newer gun based off the wood. BEAUTIFUL! Brownings have came up in price lately and why I do not know. I would say it would be a ballpark $3K piece all day long. If it was a 60/70s model it might fetch close to $5k to right person if it had box.

I had a friend that did not know what he had. Bar II Safari in 270 Weatherby Mag that was 95%. He wanted me to sell it for him. I pitched it local and no one wanted it because of the caliber. I put it on GB and w/in 3 hours of listing I had a guy in Michigan wanting to talk to me. We talked and he bought the gun for the BIN price of $1500. He told me there were less than 500 made. I did my research before hand and tops were selling for $17-1900. He was goin to order a new stock set and put on it because it had one scratch, lol.

Was that a factory rifle? I am unaware of the BAR ever being chambered for a weatherby cartridge.

[drake322]

Factory gun. They are rare. Also, I forgot it had the usual scratch against the receiver under the side lever like all safaris had.

[Transom]

Factory gun. They are rare. Also, I forgot it had the usual scratch against the receiver under the side lever like all safaris had.

That is normal. Kind of like the scratch on the safety of a Remington model 8 or 81 or even an AK.

[godsdozer]

It is a 1973. The engravers name is etched on the side : J LEWANCZVK


From what I have been reading over the holidays, Lewanczvk was one of their master engravers.

[STEVEO COBRA 98]

Very nice rifle!!

[Tidewater Bass]

Thats a work of art. I wonder how many hours went into the engraving...