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Truly one of John Browning’s legendary designs that had its origins going all the way back to 1910. The slide spring was located around the barrel and the pistol is striker fired. For its size and intended use as a defensive weapon, I believe this small pocket pistol was ahead of its time.
Spring looks like it’s coming early this year. Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny day with a high temperature in the mid 60s. Decided to take the 1955 Browning to the gun club in the late afternoon when there would be few, if any people on our plinking range. The plinking range being a fitting place to ring a little steel at close range with a pistol that was basically intended to be used at bad breath distances.
Good thing I picked a time when no one else was on the range. After firing 6 rounds the barrel bushing, that has zero signs of any wear whatsoever, managed to rotate itself to a point that the tabs on the bushing aligned themselves with the takedown notch in the end of the slide and got launched down range by the slide spring that was and is stronger than my X-wife’s resolve to empty my bank account when we divorced. Did you know that little bushing can go all of 40 yards when it gets launched like that? Well, it sure can!
So at this point, I’ve either got a very expensive paperweight or my work is cut out for me on a treasure hunt of sorts with the range all to myself. An hour and forty-odd minutes later I actually found the bushing! I also taught myself a whole new vocabulary that would likely get me permanently barred from The High Road were I to share that on this post.
All of this rambling post has a point. Figured I had better scrounge up a spare barrel bushing or two…might not be so lucky next time. After careful research, including Numich Gun Parts, I’ve reached the conclusion that the barrel bushing for this pistol is “Unobtainium”. Does anyone know where I might be able to locate one of these bushings?